Hi, On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:25:19PM +0000, 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 Linux installation. > > This could include information on the hardware, such as graphics cards, and > some things related to the user, such as language settings and time zones. > > These could be written to a floppy and used to supply the information which > Debian Installer will need (a bit like a RedHat Kickstart floppy) 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 wants to get rid of the relatively minor performance penalty of the extra FS layer. Can Linux work with a loopback root fs, using initrd to set it up? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info
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