Maybe check out Knoppix - it's a Linux distribution that exists entirely on CD and memory - no HD required. If it already has LyX then great, if not then maybe look into adding it. At any rate it's a complete system that you can take to somebody's desk and boot from. It spends a few minutes detecting hardware, and if they like what they see you can supposedly dump the installation to the HD as currently configured. Probably works fine with mounting a file on FAT32 as loopback for its root.
But I've never tried it (want to though). Maybe it would help sell GNU/Linux in general to your workmates. Have fun, Darren On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 04:54, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I'm guessing someone's asked this before but anyways - is there any > plan to have a Windows version of LyX, i.e. a native Win version (so > that one doesn't need Cygwin and an X server).. reason I ask is I made a > presentation on LyX (actually, more of a demo) in my department here and > a LOT of people were really interested.. but many of them were deterred > by the long installation procedure (ofcourse, the comparison of this > install was with double-clicking an exe file to do the install).. so > I've been more or less trying to do demos of Cygwin, X and LyX installs > on computers in the labs... it would be really nice to have a pure > windows version but I guess the amount of work involved is not trivial > at all.. > > Thanks, > nirmal
