Disk Drive Imaging Software

msimon1960 · 01-20-2007, 08:47 AM

I'm looking for software to create a bootable disk drive image of my system.

I'm trying to troubleshoot the SAMBA documentation in Ubuntu and want to be able to work through it from a clean install each time a correction is made. It would be a tremendous time saver if I could just reinstall my default setup from a bootable DVD.

Matt.

macemoneta · 01-20-2007, 11:08 AM

It would be easier to use something like VMWare Server, and snapshot the system at the point you want to return to. You can then use that snapshot to restart at that point. It's much faster than rebooting, and you can easily test the same changes across multiple virtual systems (for example, different distributions) at the same time.