Ubuntu on a Stick - Computer lab Vesion

[Victor Padro]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> 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)?
>
> Can't answer that.

>
>    1.
>    2. How do I get that image on a uUSB stick with a GUI tool in regular
>    user space?
>
> Use Unetbootin

>
>    1.
>    2. What is the optimal capacity of the USB Stick to use (I guess
>    4-8GB).
>
> 4GBs will be ok, 8GB is better, 16GB is awesome!

>
>    1.
>
> Thanks!
>
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