BootstrapFromCdUsb

Bootstrap without a connection to the Internet.

Introduction

In some situations, Pathway will need to be installed without a connection to the Internet.

Details

The bootstrap program looks for particular versions of the various installers. If those versions are present in the same folder as the bootstrap program and marked as read only, then the bootstrap program will use the local copies instead of going to the Internet to look for them. This was to allow Pathway to be installed from a USB key or CD-Rom on machines which are not connected to the Internet.

This is the list I used during testing:

• calibre-0.9.36.msi
• net 2.0 dotnetfx.exe
• FoxitReader603_enu_Setup.exe
• jre-7u51-windows-i586.exe
• LibreOffice_4.1.4_Win_x86.msi
• PathwayBootstrap.ini
• prince-9.0r4.exe
• SetupPw7Bte.msi
• SetupPw7Se.msi
• SetupXeLaTeXTesting-1.7.msi

NOTE: If you want to prepare a USB or CD download package, you will want to download the dot net 2.0 and the Java installation packages for both 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems.

NOTE 2: You may want to download the US (or other language) help file(s) for Libre Office

The ini file has this content:

 [Versions]
 Java=7u45
 ;LibreOffice=3.6.5,7A3D261E340E433074424681EDB8668C
 LibreOffice=4.1.4
 Prince=9.0r4
 FoxitReader=612.1224
 Calibre=1.19.0
 XeLaTex=1.7

The ini file is used to substitute version numbers in the installer names. This way you could replace an installer the bootstrap wanted to install with a newer one or older one by changing the version number in the ini file (and of course making sure the ini file existed in the same folder as PathwayBootstrap-1.6.1.3468.exe and was marked as read only)

In the case of LibreOffice, an older version is being used since the new version has a format change to the odt file that we don't support yet. The bootstrap program gets LibreOffice from a site that has cached the older version and the second number is the number of the program on that site.