On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Skylar Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
I use Steady State for several Windows computers labs that I maintain. Since I moved to that I haven't had to re-image the computers for anything except to add new software to the image. I recommend it to everyone. The advantage is that as soon as you restart the computer it resets everything to how it was when you enabled it, automatically installs Windows updates at night, and allows an administrator to choose to save changes on logout. The only issue on a personal computer would be file saving. However, if the system is simply used for internet surfing (or as a public lab computer in my case), that shouldn't be a problem.
SkyOn Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:On 08/16/2010 09:20 PM, Brian Phillips wrote:I've been happy with partimage for this purpose. Rolling back to a fresh
> Similar to Norton Ghost, or something of the like.
>
XP install takes about 3 minutes. I would set it up like this:
Partition 1: Linux installation (with partimage)
Partition 2: Windows installation
Grub: Boots windows by default.
Boot into Linux, and take a disk image of partition 2 and store it on
partition 1. Then, when you need to revert to a fresh XP install, just
boot into Linux, run partimage and restore the XP partition.
The only tricky part is keeping up with Microsoft updates. Every time a
security patch comes out, you'll probably need to re-image. Using a VM
would probably be easier in this respect.
--Dave
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