Reading the original question it sounded to me like you wanted more of a partition copy/cloning tool rather than reinstalling. Having a quick Google around, and i have to admit I haven't used either of these two suggestions, I found a couple of possibilities:
Ghost for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ SystemRescueCd inc. Partimage - www.sysresccd.org Both look like they will do what you want, I suspect that the hard part will be hiding all the complex options to make a simple 'Click here to restore' interface. Good luck Tom 2009/8/7 Tim Dobson <[email protected]>: > Umm yeah I can probably sort of help. > > One of the projects I'm working on is a customised version of Ubuntu 8.04 > (LTS is a good idea!) that in theory you can use to easily install Ubuntu > server with an asterisk voip server and a web UI for configuring it. > > There's some quite good wiki page on this subject: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization > (that's the page for desktop installations - what I'm doing wiki ubuntu > server is a bit different) > > Essentially there are two steps: > > * create a customised ISO > * put the customised ISO on a usb stick and make it work. > > As we've been finding the second step quite difficult, we've been > concentrating on the first step and testing the first bit on CDs - there's > no need to complicate things further at this stage. > > Customising the install process is in theory fairly easy, unfortunately, I > had quite a few issues getting the Ubuntu-keyring package to function > correctly so at the moment I'm using a non-ideal solution whereby the > preseed late_command runs a script to install some packages. > > It's still a very bad way of doing things and I'll have to go back and see > what it is that wasn't quite going right to start off with. > > What you need is to preseed most of the Ubuntu installer (Alan linked to > some good documentation here), modify the image or do something to install > those extra packages and modifications, work out how to get the customised > image to boot from usb correctly. > > Just to emphasise, I'm NOT an expert in this area, it just so happens I've > been banging my head about this sort of thing for the past few weeks, so I > know a little. :) > > Would love to hear how you get on! > > Tim > > Phil Lewis wrote: >> >> 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]/ > > - > 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]/ > - 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]/
