Give me a program to make

**elmer_42** · April 12th, 2008

That's a good idea, but then every part would have to be modular. That's a good thing, but makes it harder to code. What program would be made, though?

az · April 12th, 2008

Here is my suggestion for a relatively easy program.

It would be great to make a USB live cd installer.

Basically, the USB image for a live cd can be made this way:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Li...148a42c1dc4e00

But then, to "burn" the image to usb stick, you need to run

sudo zcat usbimage.gz > /dev/sdc1

Making a self-extracting archive in linux is super-easy:

http://gnubie.blogspot.com/2006/04/u...acting_22.html

It would be great to make a self-extracting stub that can run
sudo lshw -C disk short

and take the output and find USB drives. Then offer the user the choice of what drive to write the image to. The user would pick the USB drive that they want to put the image on, and then the installer would unzip the image to the first partition.

If you have never booted from the USB drive before, it needs to have an MBR written to it. That too is simple and could be handled by the script.

More advanced features would be to make the script offer to create a separate partition on the device for the space left over after the image is written to it. You can use that partition for a persistent home.

**elmer_42** · April 12th, 2008

That seems a more suitable task for a shell script if you ask me. I mean, you could do it in Python, but you would probably just end up running the same commands you would run in the terminal.

**swoll1980** · April 12th, 2008

a lexmark 5270 driver

**CostaRica** · June 7th, 2008

AmigoI too late to say that I have been trying to make an ERP for my store in python and wxGlade for a long time? I Am too making progress in this areas but still need some help. It IS a really inreresting project since I already have the data model, know how to connect to PostgreSql and it would be the GUI and signals part I would need help with. We can buiLd it together and learn in the process from one another.