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My school computers have broken video card drivers, and the school has rigged the computers to crash if some one updates the video card. I have no administrative permissions. I want to find a way to play Minecraft without OpenGL. MESA won't work because I need administrative privileges. I can download and edit my user files

Thats not possible. What MIGHT be possible is booting off a USB thumb drive into a pre-configured Windows or Linux install. That way you dont have to deal with admin privileges. Easiest way would probably be to get an empty thumb drive thats 8GB or so, 4GB might work depending on the Linux distro, burn a Linux distro like Ubuntu or Mint to disc and then boot the disc on the school computer, making absolutely sure to install to that thumbdrive and not the internal harddrive. Thats the theory anyway but I'm not sure how the bootloader situation would work... as long as it installs the bootloader to the thumbdrive it should be fine. I'd test it out on a personal computer first.

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My school computers have broken video card drivers, and the school has rigged the computers to crash if some one updates the video card. I have no administrative permissions. I want to find a way to play Minecraft without OpenGL. MESA won't work because I need administrative privileges. I can download and edit my user files

yea i agree do that get a mem stick and install a live version of ubuntu onto it. then install and update minecraft and your java on this mem stick. then play minecraft. to do this an easier way you can also set up a virtual box as well if you really need to keep on your schools computer and operating system. throw the program on the stick and start it up from your mem stick and with pre loaded configurations it will load your system on the side of your schools OS pretty much play 2 at once.

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yea i agree do that get a mem stick and install a live version of ubuntu onto it. then install and update minecraft and your java on this mem stick. then play minecraft. to do this an easier way you can also set up a virtual box as well if you really need to keep on your schools computer and operating system. throw the program on the stick and start it up from your mem stick and with pre loaded configurations it will load your system on the side of your schools OS pretty much play 2 at once.

VirtualBox offhands 3D acceleration to the host-OS graphics driver. So broken OpenGL wont be fixed through virtualization. Besides, i'm fairly certain you need admin privileges to run it in the first place.

Quote from quark8790

I do this all the time. :3

Grab a USB stick, pop an Ubuntu Live CD onto it, and just run it from there. Be careful to install anything to the school PC, this is BA-AD. Just install OpenJDK onto the Ubuntu install and ignore it when it wants to install "Ubuntu". I recommend 12.04 (LTS). Should only take around 1-2GB. Might need a few hours with a web connection for updates tho.

If I do that and my teacher sees that he'll get mad plus they have Windows 8 on it and I want to preserver that I want the computer to have the exact same data and operating system as it had when I walked in.
P.S.I only have 50 mins

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If I do that and my teacher sees that he'll get mad plus they have Windows 8 on it and I want to preserver that I want the computer to have the exact same data and operating system as it had when I walked in.
P.S.I only have 50 mins

The computer will be exactly the same as when you left it after you remove your usb drive and reboot. Unfortunately, there is no other way around this issue, besides installing the right drivers.