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[Naoyuki Tai <ntai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

First,
Please join the wce-volunteers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list, if not 
already.

Then,
I'm looking at Clonezilla, and it's not quite polished to be "fool 
proof" but its promises are convincing enough to use it.
It's like "Norton Ghost" or "TrueImage", but works with Linux.

I'm pretty busy this week and am not sure I'm ready to roll out 
Clonezilla for the next game day.
If someone wants to give it a go, please go on to read the rest.

I bought a USB flash last weekend for testing and somehow it's a DOA, 
thus I just ordered two more today.

You could test it out by using VirtualBox.
First, install VirtualBox (can be Windows, Linux, MacOS X), install 
Ubuntu to the virtual box VM.
Using Clonezilla CD image, mounting on VirtualBox's CD drive, boot from 
the CD image.
Create a disk image of the Ubuntu VM, save it elsewhere.

Create another VM, without having any formatting, start up the 
Clonezilla CD again, and load up (restore) the disk image from first VM.
Once it succeeds, it time to apply it to real machines. For that, you 
probably want a USB flash drive.
Copy the disk image to a USB flash drive. Burn Clonezilla CD to a CD.
Boot from the Clonezilla, and restore the disk image created by the 
Clonezilla from the first VM, using the USB flash drive's image.

You need to record the restore steps, and then apply it to a real 
machine to make sure the restore process works.

If all goes well, Ubuntu installation can be done, even for a slow/old 
machine, in less than 20 minutes.
If it's a P4 equivalent machine with decent disk (like 20GB and up), it 
can be done in about 5 minutes, 10 minutes maximum.


--
Tai

P.S. I'm volunteering to be a camera man for a school play for this week 
and week end, and I am not sure how much time I have until the game day.