There have been some other responses regarding lock-down etc. and while you could fit an OS instance on a CD, I doubt that you could fit Office on there as well.
Then again IDE connected DVD-Rom/CD-RW drives are only about £20 and IDE CD/DL-DVD rewriters are only about £30, so that wouldn't be that much additional cost And - for the partition copier - the Jan 2006 issue of PCW included 'Hard Disk Manager' which could probably do the job - so that's only about another £5.00 for the software, unless you find some freeware on the net JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Holsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Protecting a Public Access Win98 Computer > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:27:05 -0000, James Button > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Pete, > > > >Considering the lack of support for 98, and the current problems with > >security, I would be very wary of using win98 for anything where the system > >may also be running things like office, and users may be entering personal > >details. > > I don't have any choice as to the OS. > > >While I would suggest it would be better to run their work in a virtual > >environment, that is reset on each logoff/logon, have you considered setting > >up the system to either run the OS from a DVD, using the hard drive as > >workingspace, or to effectively restore the OS environment from a booting > >DVD, on every boot. > > Nope. I don't think these boxes have DVD drives. > > >(BIOS set to boot from CD/DVD drive only, and you supply several copies of > >the bootimage DVD) > > Thanks. > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
