george dinwiddie gdinwiddieminnet ben mord said ah case use something considerably less powerful vmware need machine configured boot cdrom use ram disk scratch space numerous linux distros available let boot stateless functional system cdrom ram expensive directory structures many systems eg windows sufficiently organized standardized make combination bootable cds ram drives practical even fortunate enough using linux another fhscompliant nix still cant fit lot cd unusual today gigabytes static multimedia content web server particular problem alleviated somewhat using dvds temporary solution best become outdated quickly data requirements grow hard drives become cheaper writeprotect hard disk partitions static seem recall article early 80s byte magazine perhaps bbs systems testing unknown perhaps trojan horse software george george dinwiddie gdinwiddiealberg30org gods deduct mans allotted span hours spent sailing httpwwwalberg30org thu 5 sep 2002 150837 0400 edt use base image delta image automated recovery