It took awhile, but I finally finished the UNR/eeePC project.  While Remastersys is a great application for cloning computers, unfortunately I found it’s limition: Ubuntu Netbook Remix.  While it does indeed clone the hard drive, after you boot it with the live CD/USB you create, errors kill the install.  This is a well known bug, and hopefully soon we’ll see a fix, but for now I moved back to Clonezilla.  I used this application in the past, with little success.  This time, I actually followed the directions…and voila…success!  I cloned the image, all the settings, and could move it to similar models.  While only testing on 700 and 900 series eeePCs, I assume this will work with many/all netbook models.

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I also took the time to explore ways to ‘freeze’ the user partition.  We spent a large amount of time last year in resetting pre-shared keys when students accidentally/on purpose erased their wireless settings.  This time, we will explore Lethe (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/lethe/index.php?title=Main_Page), which is the open source version of Deep Freeze.  This will allow certain partitions to be read-only, not allowing changes to crucial settings.  More on that shortly!