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. <br>
<br>It's a good idea to plan this out throughly before hand though I agree<br><br>Dan<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@tensixtyone.com">andy@tensixtyone.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:18:59PM +0100, Richard Smedley wrote:<br>
> > Also you need to make sure that they have saved any of their<br>
> > personal data before their operating system is erased and replaced.<br>
><br>
> One of the good things about Netbooks is that most<br>
> of them can boot from SSD, no need to wipe anything<br>
> off :-)<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Most SSDs are quite small as well (4-8gb), maybe we could make a point<br>
that if you want you can bring along a usb flashdrive of the required<br>
size and we could back it up. Or even, just have a PC on site with<br>
decent storage as a temp dumping ground for the images.<br>
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