[Mageia-discuss] Install Mageia from Windows

[Hoyt Duff]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 7:02 PM, R James <upsnag2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Adrien Touminet <worldmania at free.fr> 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.

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Hoyt