On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 04:22:58PM -0500, Ricardo C. Lopez wrote: > Well, I see too many "possible" problems of technical and political > nature. Perhaps I was too hopeful and/or Voltaire is still as right as > ever, but I was hoping for "yeah, sure!", "here is a link showing how > to do it ..." kinds of answers. > > Here is plan B: > * I may have to use an extra laptop (perhaps with Debian installed, > or, preferably) > * still with an external DVD (I would like to be sure on a physical > level that my baseline hasn't been messed with and I don't want to > waste too much time checking it) > * connect that extra laptop to their laptop to gain internet access > via a direct cable connection > or: > * use a relatively large USB with a special init configuration to use > a RAM disk and/or an extra disk and discard -absolutely- everything > that may have been installed or dropped in my files and folders while > I was connected to the Internet > > is there a Debian derivative conceived around such basic ideas? > > lbrtchx >
It's a school / your work. You are going to have to play by their admin's rules - or they'll likely throw you off their network. My suggestion is that you talk to them politely and explain what you want to do and that you'll demonstrate it to them. Some "clueless user doing random dangerous stuff on our network" - and that's what school admins tend to think because of other people they've dealt with in the past - is not a good basis to be going on with. /me has experience of similar environments in the past. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater
