I'm talking about using a fully Win32-based installer to install Fedora into a disk image file and then run firstboot onward from the Linux side. I guess that would mean extending anaconda yet again to include more functionality...
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Douglas McClendon</b> <<a href="mailto:dmc.fedora@filteredperception.org">dmc.fedora@filteredperception.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
King InuYasha wrote:<br>> I dunno about booting a RW version of the livecd ext3 image and then finish<br>> installation that way, it might be simpler just to go ahead and do normal<br>> installation but instead to a file on the Windows partition within Windows.
<br>> Simply to not have the redundancy..... It could invoke firstboot though....<br><br><br>My theory, was that it would be less work to get ananconda to handle<br>that*, than it would be to port anaconda to windows.<br>
<br>Again, this is only from the perspective of allowing the user to<br>download an installer in windows, and then reboot straight to their<br>installed linux, without the intermediary step of burning a bootable<br>install cd, and booting from it.
<br><br> From the perspective that I think you are talking about, of just doing<br>a 'normal installation' (e.g. download bootable installable iso, then<br>boot from it), it is indeed much simpler, and perhaps just a matter of
<br>ressurrecting functionality that existed many years ago.<br><br>-dmc<br><br>* (especially if for personal rebootless reasons I was going to do most<br>of the foundation work anyway)<br><br><br>><br>> On 9/2/07, Douglas McClendon <
<a href="mailto:dmc.fedora@filteredperception.org">dmc.fedora@filteredperception.org</a>> wrote:<br>>> Jonathan Steffan wrote:<br>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>>>> Hash: SHA1<br>>>>
<br>>>> King InuYasha wrote:<br>>>>> Hello,<br>>>>><br>>>>> I recently discovered a very interesting project called Wubi (<br>>>>> <a href="http://wubi-installer.org/">
http://wubi-installer.org/</a>) which permits installation of<br>>>>> Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu to a disk image file on a Windows drive and<br>>> makes the<br>>>>> appropriate boot entry changes to allow booting to Linux from the disk
<br>>> image<br>>>>> file in the Windows partition. Ubuntu Gutsy plans to add it to the<br>>> official<br>>>>> methods of installation, and I was wondering what you guys think about<br>
>>>> having something similar in Fedora?<br>>>>><br>>>>><br>>>> This would be neat and I've looked into it before. From the Virtual<br>>>> FUDCon, I've taken that a user needing a windows installer is not in our
<br>>>> target audience (at least not right now.) With regards to making it an<br>>>> "unofficial" installer to prove it's viability, I'm all for it. Fedora<br>>>> sponsored/official live images were sparked by community initiative, a
<br>>>> 'from windows' installer might be an example in the future. I don't<br>>>> particularly like the way Wubi gets things done, but give the concept<br>>>> merit. I'd look at helping to do something similar, but using anaconda
<br>>>> to do the install among other changes.<br>>> I think this is merely a matter of ressurrecting a long-dead feature.<br>>> Wasn't anaconda historically able to install to a file on a vfat<br>
>> partition?<br>>><br>>> Naturally during those dark ages when a RW ntfs driver was unavailable,<br>>> and the vast majority of windows users used ntfs rather than vfat, this<br>>> was not possible.
<br>>><br>>> The instant that an rw-ntfs driver was in fedora, I was drooling in<br>>> anticipation of this feature returning.<br>>><br>>> Of course, having a native win32 installer would be pretty cool too, for
<br>>> all the reasons wubi is doing it. Interestingly, I can see a simple<br>>> win32 installer that just installs the livecd ext3 image as is, and then<br>>> lets you run anaconda from an RW version of the livecd image once
<br>>> rebooted into linux. In fact, the changes to get that incarnation of<br>>> anaconda to do the right thing, are nearly identical to the changes I<br>>> have been kicking around to support rebootless installation. (
i.e. the<br>>> stuff anaconda tweaks neads to be the stuff from /, and not<br>>> /mnt/sysimage).<br>>><br>>> bwa ha ha....<br>>><br>>> -dmc<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> fedora-devel-list mailing list
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