Ubuntu on a Stick - Computer lab Vesion

[Amichai Rotman]

Hi,

I am helping out at a computer lab that recently switched to Ubuntu Hardy on
all their computers. This lab serves Software Engineering students at an
academic institute, so they have very specific needs and software
installation.

The guy who manages the lab wants to provide a way to the students to take a
copy of the Ubuntu installed on the lab computers home on a USB stick.

Normally you'd use USB Creator from the Backports repo, but sue to obvious
reasons, he wants to refrein from providing root (or superuser) access right
to the students.

I suggested using apt-mirror to create a local (inside the labs's LAN) repo,
and set all the computers at the lab to use that as the only source for APT
(installation and updates). Then, create a custom image that can be then
dumped to a USB stick.

And here come my questions:


   1. How do I make such an image the will be always updated (kind of
   nightly builds)?
   2. How do I get that image on a uUSB stick with a GUI tool in regular
   user space?
   3. What is the optimal capacity of the USB Stick to use (I guess 4-8GB).

Thanks!

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Amichai Rotman

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