The Dell Ubuntu PCs come with a recovery partition - with an Ubuntu image. :)
Scott On Dec 23, 2009, at 21:44, Jim <evesautomot...@wavecable.com> wrote: > Greetings: > My boss had a laptop that would not boot into vista because of a > virus. > I was about to pop in a live cd but found that this 'dell' laptop gave > me an option for recovery. It let me rewrite the hard drive with an > image that was fresh from factory i.e. day 1 configuration. My boss > didn't have anything important so I did just that and it worked like a > charm. > > Intrigued with this I was wondering if this can be done with linux. > Lets say that I built a pc w/ oh I don't know, ubuntu, and I wanted to > have the same setup as my bosses pc had. Can this be done and be as > user friendly with linux? Could I somehow make grub boot into some > sort > of gui script that can have a presaved image file of a fresh install > on > that pc? Mind you this should be simple to use for the masses out > there > that aren't computer savy, like me :) > > I know quite a bit about cars, I know very little about computers. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech