[Casper] boot camp commands on windows

[Thomas Larkin]

Yeah, boot picker is nice and I have used that in the past.  The only huge downside for me is that I have to open up firmware access for boot picker to run, and it doesn't like the fact that I make the windows partition not mount at start up via /etc/fstab.  In my environment if we unlock firmware I know that some students will use target mode booting or an installer DVD to root a machine, and that is something my boss doesn't want to happen, nor do I.  I know that physical access tosses all security out the window, but a firmware password is a huge deterrent, and 99% of the students won't want to physically open up their macbooks to bypass the firmware password.  Mainly because we can tell, and we charge them for the laptop if that is the case.

Trust me, I would rather not put windows on any of these machines but due to time and a certain application I have absolutely no choice.  Next school year if the developer doesn't get off their butts and fix their product to make it web based (like they are promising us) I am going to have to lobby to change products.

thanks,

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
cell:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351

>>> Eric Winkelhake <eric.winkelhake at us-resources.com> 7/8/2008 12:10 PM >>>
Not sure about forcing them....but have you seen BootPicker from bombich?? 
 Or maybe rEFIt??  Their open source so maybe you could manipulate one to 
get the desired effect.

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"Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> 
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Re: [Casper] boot camp commands on windows






I?ve been asking for this same thing. I haven?t checked out the updated 
version of bootcamp yet, but my guess there is nothing in there for 
?Enterprise? support.

If someone has something that does this I would owe them big time!

Craig


On 7/8/08 1:04 PM, "Thomas Larkin" <TLARKI at kckps.org> wrote:

Is anyone running any kind of scripts or hooks with in the windows side 
that use boot camp?  Like, how would you force someone in windows to 
change the default boot volume back to OS X and reboot the system?

Thanks,

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org 
cell:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351

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