Good luck with your great project Craig :-) Have a look at the One Button Installer as a convenient way to create an image as a tarball and install it into many other netbooks. It will be independent of the size of the internal drive (HDD, SSD). See this tutorial page at the Ubuntu Forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172971 Best regards Nio 2013-12-21 14:25, Craig Morehouse skrev: > Hello and best wishes to everyone. > > I am Craig Morehouse, General Manager of Big Tiger Imports LLC. > > I have found a special line of Netbooks made in China, and I am building > the business foundation to sell them in the USA. Unlike most Netbooks, > these will be full featured notebook computers with 4GB RAM and 500GB > hard drives. > > Fortunately, the Chinese offer many of their product lines with a choice > of Windows 7 or Linux. So, I knew the machines would be Linux > compatible. I figured that the combination of Atom processors and > Lubuntu software might work nicely. > > I ordered the first sample several weeks ago and put Lubuntu on it. As > predicted, the results are wonderful. It was almost emotional. > > I first contributed to the Free and Open Source Software movement in > 1985. A small part of Emacs is mine ( a very small part, but I am quite > proud of having contributed). Since then I did a couple of other > projects at the Free Software Foundation's request. Basically language > development and grunt work. I've been using Linux as my primary home > system since the late 90's. I'm a Certified Apple Technician as well. > > I also worked with Michael Hart of Project Gutenberg for a decade. Many > of you have never heard of the Dynabook, but you might google it. It's a > part of computing history. This is my tribute to Alan Kay and the late > Dr. Michael Hart. I have shared these visions for a long, long time (did > I mention that I am old? Eh, what's that?). The hardware part is a > reality; the other phase of the DynaBook and PG were their educational > purposes. I intend to complete the visions. > > Anyway, the upshot of the situation is that I'm going to sell these > NetBooks for less than $300. They will come with Lubuntu and the Project > Gutenberg DVD books. > > I am working now to convert all Gutenberg 29,000 books in the collection > from text format to .epub format. I'm using the Calibre program for the > library and conversion. The Ebook reader that comes with Lubuntu is > splendid. > > So, the little notebooks will be available in five colors, (Black, White > Pink, Red and Yellow). Each machine will come with Lubuntu, the LXDE > environment customized to younger folks and the adults who will be > teaching them. I'm going through all the Educational software available > for all Ubuntu flavors, and will have a wide selection organized and > available right out of the box. We'll also have more than 29,000 Ebooks > from Project Gutenberg on each machine. > > I'm too old now to be an active developer any longer, but I have 30 > years experience with Graphic User Interfaces along with computer game > design. Basically, I've seen most every GUI used in the USA and the UK > to any extent, and I know from the inside what such projects require. > > I'll be giving $2 to the Lubuntu developers and $2 to Project Gutenberg > for each notebook sold. > > I'd like to give feedback to the lubuntu-users list since I will be > watching exactly how people interact with the machines. > > It will take about 6 - 8 weeks to get everything ready. There's a > lead-time to get the machines, there's a lot of work needed to do the > ebook conversions, and we have to work around the Chinese New Year > vacation times. > > So I'd like to be an ally here as much as I can. > > Thanks to all of you, > Craig Morehouse > -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
