Hello, I have tried to search the Archives and google but have not found any specific links or directions. I am a parent that has obtained 30 workstations from work and am donating them to my son's school.  I am a Windows Sys Admin with some Linux experience, not a lot. If anyone can point me in the direction of some detailed instructions that would be great!  I just need to get a working prototype CD by today or tomorrow. I have experience making a self-restore cd using DOS flopy image pressed to cd with the image on a single cd, spanned cd or DVD in the windows world and works fine.  Sounds like I'm going to have issues with the boot loader and have heard that I might need to use riserfs filesystem, and a few other things but I am looking for tried and true instructions/steps because I am running out of time to do a bunch of testing. First let me describe what I would like to do: 1. My son's school lost their computer lab Aid and have no support for the lab.  I would like to make a ghost image of a system, so if things get messed up, a student or faculty member can insert a CD and laydown a pristine ghost image, followed my a few manual steps to rename the host, etc... Phase I:  (down and dirty, not fully automated, students or teachers will have to perform post ghost manual steps) 1. create a bootable cd that will lay down a dual boot image of windows and edubuntu with no GRUB issues, default boot into edubuntu.      - The image needs to support resizing the partitions on the fly; sometimes I will be ghosting to 40 gig disk and sometimes to 80 gig disks. Phase II: (fully automated cloning process, either cd-based or PXE boot into some networking PXE server hosting the iso's) 2. some sort of scripting for post cloning customization for computer name and connecting to print server, and running the software updater to pull down all the lastest patches since the cd iso was last made. Thanks a bunch! -e -- -Erik Myrold email: <a href="mailto:emyrold@gmail.com">emyrold@gmail.com</a> cell     415-205-1620