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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