On Tue, 05 May 2009 17:39:34 +0100, hantslug@??? said:
> What I'm looking for is 
> something more like the restore disks you'd get from a manufacturer 
> which are pretty much a case of stick it in the drive and boot from it.
http://www.mondorescue.org/ is supposed to do just that, although when I
last tried it (probably five years ago) it wasn't perfect (I can't recall
the details). But worth trying, I'm sure.
-- 
Keith Edmunds
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