DReaM software build: use Live CDs to avoid screwing up system [COLUG]

[Diyab]

You can also use VMware server which is free to run.  Just install your
distro in to a VM, take a snap shot after the install and then go to
town.  If you mess anything up you can restore the snap shot and be
right back at a clean install state.

http://www.vmware.com/products/server/overview.html

Timothy

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Thanks.  I hadn't thought of that. I do use live CDs from time to time.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 12:38 -0500, Jim wrote:
>> Mark Erbaugh wrote:
>>
>>> I have a machine that I can afford screw up, but I'd rather not. 
>> Do your screwing around with live CDs. 
>> If you don't mount hard drive partitions, 
>> then when you screw up, you're only a reboot away from where you were. 
>>
>> The use of live CDs is a recurring theme. 
>>
>> Ubuntu has one https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
>> Knoppix is the granddaddy of live CDs. 
>> Knoppix disks belongs in your bag of tools. 
>>
>> Jim
>>
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