Ok...I should be able to handle this, will take me some time. In the meantime, just for learning purposes, could I load an iso live cd image to a partition on another hard drive the same way that I would burn to a cd and then point grub2 to it? Would like to have debian on it or some other distro like sabayon. On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 14:57 -0500, Scott Miller wrote: > 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
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