domino Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Its first releases supported two distributions, Ubuntu and OpenSuSE. However, work is being done in order to support more distributions: Fedora, Mandrivia, Debian, Gentoo... The final goal is not only to provide a way of installing Linux on a Windows system, but being a tool for a complete migration from Windows to Linux, by getting the system and user information stored on Windows, and writing default values to the Linux installation according to them, easying this way the migration. http://instlux.sourceforge.net/ I have't tried this but wouldn't it be nice if it actually worked? No more burning to W/R medias. I imagine you can use DAEMON Tools and mount the ISO images and install from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Interesting. Has anyone tried this yet? I think just saving your documents/music/pictures to a disc is enough but if this does more I'd like to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Ill try it this weekend and post as to how it goes because i have had problems installing ubuntu ne way... max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 20, 2006 Author Share Posted July 20, 2006 Let us know Max. i'm looking for an excuse to nuke Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Same, here tell us if it works (well) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 20, 2006 Author Share Posted July 20, 2006 Interesting. Has anyone tried this yet? I think just saving your documents/music/pictures to a disc is enough but if this does more I'd like to know. That's what may be confusing to reader. It says it migrates, then it says: Do not worry any more about configuring your system to boot from a CDROM/DVDROM. Choose the linux of your choice and the media source (from a CDROM or directly from Internet) In the forum: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=506112 Does this actually install as partition on HD or does it install itself (virtually) inside of windows? I'm quite confused about this... >> It installs a kernel inside windows, and all the necessary in order to start an installation. When the installation has started, you can do whatever you like with the partitions. Edit: Now, by the sound of that, it may nuke your windows at the smae time? Anyway, I'll run tis on winxp/vmware and see what happens. Gonna take time for me though. Have some things I need to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Ill also take screenshots along the way so that you can see what happens (i fear for my media center edition, but not really as the oem has a recovery partition) and ill post teh links after the fact so that you guys can see how it goes. oh, and ill start downloading the stuff in like 50 min cause i have to wait for vista to finish downloading (not for me, there is a person in another thread that needed some files out of vista so im giving him the files from beta2 on) max I have to do it tomorrow because i have to partition the hdd and i want to go to the pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 well... i did it, it had an error the first time but the second time it worked like a charm, i put it on another partition from the windows... and then i wiped it because i had to try out windows server codenamed longhorn! worked like a charm! id give it an 8 outa 10 max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 so, yo had server installed first, created another partition and then used this app in windows to install on the paritition? did yo use log or prime for linux? and what bootloader is it using? linux grub or wingrub? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 so, yo had server installed first, created another partition and then used this app in windows to install on the paritition? did yo use log or prime for linux? and what bootloader is it using? linux grub or wingrub? I had windows xp media center edition with a recovery partition... then i installed ubuntu, then wiped the ubuntu then i installed server over that... complicated.... im writing a full guide on how to use it so that every one can know how to use it and if they even want to. oh, and ubuntu, not sure, and grub i think, im doing it again so that i can write the guide, just have to redownload the x86 cd iso and ill give you all the details when i write the guide.... k, at most it will be a week, but problobly one or two days. max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Now it wont do ne thing, it has that little progress bar, it zooms to the end, it tells me to restart, and it asks me to uninstall instlux.... with no linux installed! i think that if this keeps up there will be no guide, tried 5 times... :-p that sucks, and let me know if any one has the same problem... max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Allright, i think it may be because ubuntu does not like my hardware or something, because I have the shipit disks and they wont work ether... so idk, ill try and try the SuSe one later.... but im trying to keep my PC-BSD as i have found it to be worlds better than Linux... (not really worlds, but it is better... in my opinion) max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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