Hi, Does anyone here know of any open source software solution that will allow me to image an Ubuntu laptop on to a USB stick so that it can be used by a technophobic teacher to rebuild a laptop when one goes bad?
The reimaging has got to be REALLY SIMPLE - e.g.: 1) Plug in usb stick 2) Power up netbook 3) Click or type 'yes' to confirm 4) Wait for a while 5) Plug out usb stick 6) Repower netbook Some background: a primary school has asked me to design and rollout a 30-60 netbook solution for their classrooms. I am planning on an Ubuntu 9.04 build with specific educational extras. It will be somewhat customised such that the kids/teachers will find it easy to use and start apps etc (more concerned about teachers here of course). Since I'm trying to get a basic third-party commercial support contract for the setup, I want the support people to be able to tell the teachers to just insert a USB stick to reimage a laptop if required. I could go with a scripted PXE-boot based install system but given that all these netbooks will we wireless I think this would make it harder for staff if they have to find an ethernet cable before re-imaging if/when required. Also with all the (documented) tweaks to the desktop etc, PXE would be quite a tedious scripting task and probably not the best solution given that the build will be almost static. Any ideas/solutions welcome... -- Phil Lewis - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
