Resetting Computers to Pristine State [COLUG]

[jep200404]

George Yeager wrote:

> Can the functionality of Deep Freeze:
> 
> (http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7064252512.html)
> 
> be obtained using a normal Linux distro booting from flash or CD?

Of course. 

> If so, where can I go to learn more about this?

There isn't much to learn. It's hard to mess up a hard drive that 
you don't have. Flash can be messed up if it can be written 
to. Bootable CDs in a drive that can not burn, is very 
difficult to mess up. Likewise for write protected 
floppy disks. 

   http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=cd

Start with Knoppix. Not only is it a live CD, 
at least one version had a PXE boot server and client. 
There's been NX stuff in some newer versions. 
I don't know what the present state is. 

Network PXE boot can be also used to download and boot an 
unperturbed image from a server. 

One can also boot virtual machines from an 
image that can not be modified. 

Jim