Ghost reimages the machine, and requires wiping the machine's drive and starting over. VMs are virtual machines, and you can run multiple VM's at the same time, provided that you have the harware resources, and no drive wipes.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > You can do the same thing with something like Norton Ghost... > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:06 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: transitioning to linux for development > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Matthew P. Smith <m...@smithwebdesign.net> > wrote: >> So I've pretty much had it with windows. I was all excited with 7, and it >> worked great for a couple of months, but now my systems has slowed way > down >> and I can't figure out what is going on. At this point it looks like I > will >> have to reinstall, and frankly, I don't really have the time for it. > > Welcome to the club. I feel a little dirty saying this (since Apple > gave Adobe a Steaming Hot Carl a couple of weeks ago) but Apple just > updated it's MacBook Pro product line and I received mine Wednesday. > Oh, I will still run Windows, but only in a tidy little VM on my MBP. > > Which brings me to my next topic - you may look into running VMs of > Linux / Windows / whatever rather than installing as a dual boot. > With a VM you can save the VM image and restore it later if you'd > like, which is a huge shortcut over reinstalling everything from > scratch each time you feel like Windows is being Windows. > > -Cameron > > . > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316565 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
