There has been some discussion of using LyX in
other domains with a USB stick and I saw these
new instructions which cover the new Miktex 2.5
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MiKTeX+Ghostscript+GSview+USB-drive-HOWTO.txt
Alexander Grahn
Version 1.05, 18th August 2006
Copyright © 2006 Alexander Grahn
This HOWTO provides instructions for setting up a portable installation
of MiKTeX (>=2.5), Ghostscript and GSview on external storage devices,
such as USB sticks or mapped network drives, for use with MS Windows
(2000, 2003, XP, ...) computers.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this HOWTO
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version
1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. See
http://www.fsf.org for details of this license. This HOWTO is
distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
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1 Introduction
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A portable TeX/LaTeX/PS-viewer installation for MS Windows can be
easily created by copying existing installations of MiKTeX, Ghostscript
and GSview to a USB storage device and adding some helper scripts
for initialization and utilizing the software. In fact, the procedure
described here is not restricted to USB drives but works with
everything, which, apart from being writable, has a leading drive
letter, such as "E:", in its path, e. g. mapped network drives. ...
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March hare,
Stephen
