1. A method of generating a read-only production operating system including at least one application for use with a target workstation, said method comprising: providing a baseline operating system based on a hardware profile of the target workstation; executing, at a computing device, an installation script for a target application; adding at least one resource to the baseline operating system based on an error message indicating at least one resource called by the installation script is not found; and writing, at a computing device, a production operating system to a read-only media, the production operating system including the baseline operating system and said at least one resource.