What we need is a hacked version of the SDCard formatter combined with win32diskimager that runs on Windows and starts by asking if you are sure you want to destroy the contents of the SDCard, verifying the card is good, formatting the partition table and asking for WiFi SSID/password (optional) and writing a ready to boot Raspbian image on the card.Joe Schmoe wrote: But that's not at all the point of this post. My reason for posting is that, per my previous advice, if we could figure out a foolproof/idiotproof way to get them *something* - that is, a working Raspbian system from which they could then generate whatever other system they wanted (Pidora, XBMC, RetroWhatever, Whatever…), that'd solve the problem. I thinking here something written in Javascript or something like that so that you could just click on the webpage, and it would download and install everything for you. Sort of "NOOBS on steroids." Not my area (web scripting), but it should be doable. Maybe take a page from (or attend a class sponsored by) the malware writers.
All done in one move, all done without needing anything more than a click on an icon on a Windows desktop.
It would also have an auto-updater to always pull the latest Raspbian from the download page.
That's what NOBS should do, but it's not the current design. Too much stuff in NOBS is done on the Raspberry Pi and needs a working mouse and working TV to get started.
