Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity
This is a feature request, based on bug #189193 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/189193>. Some users (at least two known in the world *ahem*) expect to be able to install ubiquity on a normal system and then run it to configure a new install on that same system. This does not work, because ubiquity expects to find a cloop image to use verbatim as a base for the new install, which it then customizes according to the user's choices. Suggestion: When no cloop image is found: 1. Ubiquity instead does an extended debootstrap of the target, including e.g. ubuntu-desktop. OR 2. Ubiquity, like HTTP-FUSE-Knoppix [1], uses httpfs [2] or some p2p-thing like Shark [3] to access a cloop image online. /c [1] HTTP-FUSE-Knoppix, has root file system on http <http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/http-fuse/index-en.html> [2] httpfs, FUSE-module for transparent HTTP access. <http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/> [3] Shark, swarming downloads over Coral <http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/coral-users/2005-April/000262.html> ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Ubiquity should be able to run outside the install CD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302499 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
