Peter Nixon
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:57:30 +0000 Squire Kevin Donnelly uttered the following:
Just accept the PC, with Windows whatever on it, and then take your discs in from home and install SuSE on another partition.
You COULD do this, but I wouldn't recommend it. I don't know how large the company is that you are working for, but there are reasons behind company rules. Not only could you end up looking stupid if you do something by stealth, you could end up getting fired. I DO run SuSE at home AND at work, but I am in charge of IT for my company. If you were in my company and I had a SOA (Standard Operating Environment) of Windows X/Office X/Custom App Y etc etc and you installed linux by stealth you would most definately NOT be in my good books.
What would be your reaction to a user who installed a 2nd HD and left it turned off in the BIOS except when booting Linux from a floppy? The SOA would be unaltered and the machine would be functionally unchanged. Few people would ever notice the 2nd drive unless they opened the case for some reason. I'm not advocating doing this, I'm just curious what your reaction would be if you accidentally discovered such a situation. -rex