Re: [Visualpython-users] Problem installing on WinXP SP2

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:45 -0600, Martin Gelfand wrote:
> Joe,
>   How tightly locked-down is your computer lab? In particular,  I'm wondering 
> whether a live-cd solution could work for you.   Now that vpython is in 
> Debian, building a custom live-cd should be relatively straightforward, 
> starting from Knoppix or morphix or ubuntu. 
>   If anyone's already built one, please speak up!  (I don't recall mention of 
> one on this list.)

I once rigged up an Autorun.ini that would load Idle when a host CDROM
disk was inserted to a standard Windows machine.  Here is the message I
posted to the list about it last year:


> Create a file named autorun.bat in the Python23 directory with this
> line:
> pythonw.exe .\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw
> 
> Also create a file autorun.inf (same place) with these contents:
> [autorun]
> open=autorun.bat
> icon=py.ico
> 
> Then burn the disk with the complete contents of the Python23
> directory
> and you will get a Python "Live" CD that will automatically open up
> IDLE
> when inserted into the host computer.  Running from CD isn't exactly
> fast, though.  The biggest slowdown will be noticed when executing
> import statements.
>