On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:02 PM, R James <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Adrien Touminet <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everyone ! >> >> Is there any plans to make an installer Windows => Mageia (like wubi for >> ubuntu) ? Migration would be easier for a newby, so what do you think about >> that ? >> > I've heard that wubi installs are OK for demo purposes but not a good > platform for actually using Linux. >
Wubi installs Ubuntu into an image file on an MS Windows box. there are pros and cons to that approach, the most important being that no re-partitioning is need for a dual-boot system and removing Linux is as simple as deleting a file. Manriva offered this install option at one point. Does anybody know why it was dropped? Actually, RedHat in its 4.x series had a live CD, IIRC. I believe that a Live CD version is more useful for the casual/curious user than Linux on a loopback filesystem.and also is usedful for demo purposes, troubleshooting a Linux or MS Windows computer or a Linux power-user on a strange machine.The Live CD approach already works, wubi would need devs and resources to adapt to Mageia, so I would say we solve more pressing problems first. -- Hoyt
