Ubuntu Wiki

So far, I've made a basic backend. There's no point it me writing a shell script, seeing as it'll have to be rewritten anyway, so heres a vague outline:

• Ask the user if (s)he wants ubuntu, kubuntu or xubuntu and i386 or AMD64
• Ask the user what version to use.
• Ask which pen drive to use, and make sure it is at least 720MB.
• Warn the user that the pen drive will be erased.

• Download this, unzip it and write it to the pen drive. This contains the partition table (a single 720MB FAT16 partition) and the MBR.

• Do the command: syslinux -s <first partition of the pen drive>

• Mount the first partition on the pen drive.

• Download http://alecjw.no-ip.org/usbuntu/ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.tar.bz2 (kubuntu/xubuntu, other archs and other versions will be there soon, just replace the appropriate parts of the filename) unzip it to the pen drive.

• Copy the CD image to the pen drive (maybe offer to download it if the user does not have a copy?)
• You're done!