installation

The install script configures the LAMP stack for drupal, installs APC, drush, drush make and sets up a database for our drupal. After this we launch the make file which downloads all needed code for our drupal. Now the script will configure the drupal file system, set up the permissions and copy the drupal install profile and resources.

(Wouldn't have linked, except they also linked to Drubuntu and others so they clearly did their research.)

Currently the installer attempts to fake systems in core, like the cache, and actually duplicates a lot of code found elsewhere for module management and what not. Why not simply package a minimal database dump, similar to how the update tests used a Drupal 6 dump written in DBTNG, that can be installed to create an extremely minimal Drupal installation. At that point the installer can act like any other module and provide forms to complete the process.

Taking it old school, but +1.