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On 13 September 2013 23:33, Nio Wiklund <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-09-13 23:58, Aere Greenway wrote: > > On 09/13/2013 02:41 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > >> The purpose was and is to make it simple, very simple. There is 'no > >> button' for multiple partitions. The OBI uses and makes only one root > >> partition and one swap partition on one drive. > >> > >> Maybe in the future I might make a modified and more advanced version. > >> I'm thinking of partitioning with gparted, and running the One Button > >> Installer afterwards. The unallocated space or the extended partition > >> might be used. Or specific partitions. Do you think many people (or even > >> most linux users) need dual or multiple boot? > >> > >> But it can select drives, so if you have several drives, internal and > >> external, the OBI can select which one to use as target for the > >> installation. You can install to any of several internal drives or to a > >> USB HDD, USB pendrive, flash card or eSATA drive. > >> > >> One interesting thing to make is a portable system on a USB pendrive or > >> a USB HDD (at least 4 GB for Lubuntu and Bodhi, at least 8 GB for the > >> other systems). A cheap USB 2 pendrive or flash card is rather slow, but > >> usually it works. (If it can boot with an iso file, it can boot with > >> grub, that is used with the OBI.) > >> > >> Maybe you could use one computer temporarily for testing:-D > > Nio: > > > > Thanks for the additional information. > > > > You might want to include a warning (if you don't have it already) that > > the installation will reformat the entire (selected?) drive, destroying > > all existing partitions on that drive. > > > > If I hadn't thought carefully about this before trying it, I would have > > wreaked havoc on the unfortunate machine I used it on. > > > > I think a good behavior for it, would be that if it saw multiple > > partitions on the target drive, it would allow the user to choose one of > > them for installation (Windows 7 upgrade does something like that). > > > > Of course, if you have to implement an OS-prober (like what GRUB does), > > that could be a lot of work. > > > There are several warnings, see the big one in the second attached > picture in the opening post of this thread in the Ubuntu Forums > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172971 > > WARNING Copy the data you want to keep to another device, for > WARNING example an external hard disk drive or a cloud service! > WARNING > WARNING When you run this installer, a new operating system will > WARNING be installed, so the device will be formatted and > WARNING > WARNING ********** COMPLETELY OVERWRITTEN ********* > WARNING > WARNING There will be no easy way to recover any previous data. > WARNING Expensive intelligence services might restore some data. > > I think you would have noticed it ;-) > > Making the OBI a dual boot installer would defeat its purpose. I think > it is better to use the existing installers to do that, the alternate > installer, if there is too little RAM or problems with the graphics for > the desktop installer. > > Best regards/Nio > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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