Users are not permitted to boot from floppies without a password. Passwords are only provided to faculty because it is possible to destroy an entire installation rendering the system unavailable for classes. There are double-sided instructions near each workstation with user instructions. WindowsNT is described on page one, and Windows95 is described on page two. Most students never pay attention to the XOSL menu however and allow the machines to proceed to boot into WindowsNT by default after a 15 second delay.
Students have several options for disk storage.
This drive is common between both the WinNT and Windows95 environments. There are of course technical obstacles that needed to be conquered before we could make this happen. Because PQDI permits users to cancel a restore, we needed to write a procedure that would close this security hole. Because we are using a single disk image to restore Win95, and because we cannot trust users not to change the hostname information we needed to write a program which would corectly set the hostname and default printer on the station as the user logs in. We needed to secure the Windows NT environment.