[Liverpool] Netbook install fest

[Dan Lynch]

Clonezilla!!!! Sorry I felt the need to shout that, I love Clonezilla but
for a 4gb drive there may not be much point. We could image their drive
before we start, with a disk that size it would only take a minute. That way
if they aren't happy we can restore it to exactly how it was before with
minimum fuss. Just a thought but as I said maybe it's overkill for such
small drives. I would expect most people bringing along a netbook to this
kind of event would already have some form of Linux, so it may be more a
case of helping them get used to it.

It's a good idea to plan this out throughly before hand though I agree

Dan


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Williams <andy at tensixtyone.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:18:59PM +0100, Richard Smedley wrote:
> > > Also you need to make sure that they have saved any of their
> > > personal data before their operating system is erased and replaced.
> >
> > One of the good things about Netbooks is that most
> > of them can boot from SSD, no need to wipe anything
> > off :-)
> >
>
> Most SSDs are quite small as well (4-8gb), maybe we could make a point
> that if you want you can bring along a usb flashdrive of the required
> size and we could back it up. Or even, just have a PC on site with
> decent storage as a temp dumping ground for the images.
>
> --
> Andrew Williams
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> e: andy at tensixtyone.com
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