What about install cygwin on the windows box?


http://www.cygwin.com/

Jim


On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 21:58, Michael Sammartano wrote:
> What brand are the computers in question? Some manufacturers have a way 
> to "overide" the BIOS/CMOS boot sequence. HP for instance has a way to 
> do it on many different machines, and eah is different. If you get a 
> model and manufacturer Google for overide BIOS on manufacturer name.. If 
> this returns no results, go to the manufactures tech site, I Am sure you 
> will find the pot of gold there.. You can  also do a search for BIOS 
> passwords, it will return "many" different engineering backdoors to BIOS 
> chips.
> 
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> 
> Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I had planned to use Knoppix as the basis for a 1 credit Intro to Linux
> >>class this fall. Unfortunately, a student in one of the school's labs
> >>got a bit too clever, booted from a CD, (not Linux, thank goodness) and
> >>did some damage. (I don't know the details.) Now the Lab people are
> >>modifying setup on all classroom and lab machines to not allow booting
> >>from floppy or CD.
> >>
> >>Does anyone know of files that can be installed on the C: drive of a W2K
> >>box that can be executed, possibly by making use of boot.ini, and which
> >>will complete the boot of the system from the floppy or CD drive instead
> >>of the HD.?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Would they be willing to tell you the BIOS password (assuming they set
> >one) so you can allow booting from CDROM and then disable it at the end of
> >each class?
> >
> >CoLinux might be an option at some point in the future, but development
> >seems to have slowed lately:
> >
> >http://www.colinux.org/
> >
> >VMWare would also be a nice addition to any lab that teaches the use of
> >multiple operating systems.
> >
> >
> >
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