Path: utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bnr-public!mlord
From: mlord@bnr-public.uucp (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Security Devices
Keywords: security boot device PC class/lab
Message-ID: <560@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 13:35:24 GMT
References: <2615@wpi.wpi.edu>
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Reply-To: mlord@bnr-public.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2615@wpi.wpi.edu> tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy) writes:
>We are looking for devices for PC compatibles that force the machine to
>boot off drive C: for use in a computer lab.  (We have the recent BYTE
>article).  The machines are currently AT&T 6300s, but AT&T AT-class
>machines will also be in the lab soon.  

I suspect just about anybody's machine will do for this, WITH A SLIGHT FIX.
By default, most (all?) machines try to boot from drive A, and then drive C.
So you have at least two options:  1) disconnect the floppy drive, which will
prevent booting from it.  Or, 2) connect the floppy drive to the drive B 
connector, which will still allow use of floppies, but will prevent booting
from them.

-Mark