Engine requires local administrator rights - Unrealistic condition
Submitted by Sven Decker on October 27, 2006 - 1:30am.
"Take your LivePC on a USB stick with you and use it on any PC in the world". Sounds good, but doesn't work for me. I suppose, it doesn't work for most commercial use.
I'm an IT Consultant and in most administrator-managed IT environments of bigger companies I work for users are of course for security reasons not local adminstrators on their clients. Since I'm a guest worker ;-) in these companies, I'm the last to get local administrative rights.
This is a big No-Go!
Is there any chance this will change in future releases?
Regards,
Sven
How do you install Baremetal to a USB drive anyway?
Submitted by mister red tape on November 1, 2006 - 10:58pm.
Yeah, how to do this?
Mind you, I am pushing my 1 GB drive with LivePC engine + Win XP + Office 2k7 beta on it... :P
Thanks
Same problem as above
Submitted by Jeremy Wahl on October 28, 2006 - 5:39pm.
I am also experiencing this problem. I am a college student and I want to use my Linux distributions on the systems I don't have admin rights on without having to mess around with live CDs. I do have rights on the lab computers, but not the ones in the library or lounge.
Thank you for your comments
Submitted by Monica Lam on October 29, 2006 - 1:05am.
Thank you for your comments -- we understand the problem and will see what we can do.
Speaking of LivePCs, do you have the right to reboot the computers in the library / lounge? I wonder if you could use our "bare-metal" version of the LivePC Engine.
You know, the ideal solution is for universities, internet cafes and large companies to make the LivePC engine software available on their computers. Users are happy because they can bring their own LivePCs and run their own applications on their own data on these machines. Companies/universities are happy because the LivePC Engine prevents operations inside the guest from wrecking the host computer.
-Monica
Rebooting yes, but no right to choose boot device
Submitted by Sven Decker on October 31, 2006 - 6:50am.
Hi,
yes, I think most users will have the right to restart their PCs.
But in most managed IT environments like companies or universities the network administrators are not glad about the users booting up their own clients/servers from brought-in devices like USB sticks or even CDs because of network security. In most cases the BIOS will be password protected and booting will be locked to the default hard disk only.
You won't get around to change that local admin thing ;-)
Sven
Rebooting
Submitted by Monica Lam on October 29, 2006 - 9:51am.
You can carry the Bare-Metal version on a USB drive, and you can boot up those computers using the drive while you are using the computer. Ideally, we can put both the Windows and Bare-Metal versions on the same drive so they can bring up the same LivePCs.
-Monica
so then...
Submitted by John Cahill on November 8, 2006 - 3:24pm.
it is just a matter of, does the BIOS support booting from a USB drive then... Something very challenging, but worthy of pursuing I think.
John
We do have a "Boot Helper"
Submitted by John Whaley on November 9, 2006 - 10:14pm.
We do have a "Boot Helper" CD that will allow you to boot from a Bare Metal USB install if the machine does not support booting from USB. The CD image is tiny and easily fits on one of those small credit-card-sized CDs.
-John
The "Bare-Metal" approach isn't going to work
Submitted by Saumya K Garg on March 4, 2007 - 6:26pm.
Unfortunately, many universities labs and large companies are adopting an approach with a locked, password protected bios that skips cd-scanning and usb-scanning during the boot up.
Wouldn't it be possible to do something like dsl-embedded (using qemu), and is able to work without needing to install any specific drivers?
What now?
Submitted by Andrés on February 26, 2007 - 4:14am.
So, is this to be understood as the moka5 team is going to fix it or is there any workaround?
The idea is great and the software works right until you use a system where you don't have administrator rights. What a shame!
admin rights
Is there a chance you can convince your company or university to install VMware player on the computers? The software is free, and it will protect the host machine while giving the users the ability to run whatever they want.
-Monica