Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help
new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they
started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system
which will be required by a Linux installation.
This could include
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 15:25, John Lines wrote:
Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help
new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they
started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system
which will be
On Sun, 08 Dec 2002, John Lines wrote:
Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help
new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they
started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system
which will be required by a
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:25:19PM +, John Lines wrote:
Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help
new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they
started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:22:52PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
wrote:
Hmmm, ok, on 2nd thought there's modems, printers, and old ISA cards.
Anything else?
What about configurations for IP, DNS, mail and news? I don't see why
it would be limited to hardware detection.
Richard
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:30, Emile van Bergen wrote:
Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem
which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, mounted using a
loopback device? That would do away with all the partitioning; that
would only be needed when the user
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:30:10PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem
which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, mounted using a
loopback device? That would do away with all the partitioning; that
would only be needed
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:04:46PM +0200, Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:30:10PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem
which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, mounted
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:25:19PM +, John Lines wrote:
Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help
new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they
started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system
which
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount
the Windows partition from the Linux installer, and read the registry
from there?
Because it's easier for Windows to read its own registry and write a
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount
the Windows partition from the Linux installer, and read the registry
from there?
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:04:46PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
Are VFAT partitions still common? I thought Windows 2000 and XP both
used NTFS by default. And last time I tried (about a year ago, I
think) mounting NTFS read-write on Linux was still flaky.
But ISTR that _file_overwrite_
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:24:56PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount
the Windows
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:45:04PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
Actually, I would find it significantly easier to borrow code from Wine
to do registry parsing and run a tool against a Windows partition
mounted read-only to extract the information we need, than I would to
write a Windows
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