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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>Ok… Here is the situation:</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>Preface: I am working for
Charles at the recycle centre. We fix A lot of systems infected by this or that,
and many of them are very pernicious and won’t be removed except by
extraordinary measures. Many times due to unsafe surfing, or a lack of knowledge
about potential threats. Some of these computers get re-infected in a short
amount of time and come back infected again.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>I have an Aspire One; and, as
are many of the newer Acers have a system restore to reset to factory
condition.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>We re-install many systems, but
I would like to use a configuration that allows a “””Factory Restore”””</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>I would really like to implement
a similar feature on the computers we fix using linux.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>My thinking is….</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>Lets say the user had a 60 Gb
HD</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>I make one 10 G partition
(should this be less ( consider we are working with small drives 40 G or
less)\</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>Three partitions in this case
10c: 40d: 10 Linux hda3?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>Install Windows on the 10 gig partition</P>
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>Format 40 more gigs as the data partition, and target
MyDocuments to point to second partition,</P>
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>With the last 10 gigs I would like to make a restore
position that includes linux, and a copy of the image of the system partition as
it was ORIGINALLY installed</P>
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>I would like to be able to boot to this partition and
restore to the original ghost image so…. I need a boot script.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>The restore partition should run
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>minilinux or something, then format
the first partition, then copy the original image to the newly formatted
partition, then reboot. and that’s all it should do.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>It is my thinking that because
all of the users data are stored on the second partition if the first(system)
partition is wiped then re imaged the system would have the equivalent of a
|Factory Restore…</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>I think this should be
easy..<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Any suggestions???</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>P.S. I would like the grub
loader to say two choices restore, and windows,</P>
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