Finally got a happy build for my common image. Now, I'm just running the "dd" command to make an image to distribute. I don't think there will be enough time to make a self-building script, which is unfortunate because that would cut the time down significantly. I did that with a coworker on a se urity contract I used to be on: security validations. That might have to be a whole other project... :(

I WILL be re-writing my instructions on this project in a way that will lend themselves to scripting much of the gruntwork out though. Just gotta host some packages locally.