And of course there is Portable GIS: http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis/ - with some tweaking that could easily achieve that objective. Depends on the scenario which would work best.
Chris ----- "Alex Mandel" <[email protected]> wrote: > Joe was asking on IRC about ways to boot with a fresh copy of a GIS > workstation every time, ie all changes made during the last use are > gone. > > Here are some ideas: > 1.Install a live disc to a harddrive, it's read only by default so it > will reset every time you boot. See http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ > Or take the harddrives out and just run from usb sticks. > > 2.If all the machines in the room are just remote terminals, then you > can run virtual images in something like vmware which has an option > to > revert back after each boot. Could also look at vmwareplayer which > only > lets you boot images to begin with. > > Either way the process starts with installing 1 machine, loading the > software, configuration and files a creating a new image from this. > You > might want to jump over to the mailing list all about the Live-DVD > stuff > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ------ Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
