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Idea
#11301: Verify System Compatibility & Install Ubuntu from Web
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Written by ubee the 19 Jul 08 at 07:46.
Category: Installation.
Related to:
Live CD.
Status: New
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Description
For those of us that don't have an optical drive, or USB option... it would be nice if we could launch an install from the web with our current OS.
Prior to install, the site could collect the hardware data and determine if it would be supported. It could then download the necessary files, store them, and begin the install process or command the system to reboot and begin the install.
Maybe it could even discover my documents and photos, and save those for the new OS.
Is this possible?
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loki wrote on the 19 Jul 08 at 08:30
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I like the idea but this could be very heavy on the remoteservers.
A suggestion: I tend to think that when people use clients without usb or other external drives they have an network connection at least. Wouldn't it be better to have the option to let them install form their own network? this might be possible already.
e.g. a live cd enviroment that can be setup up as an remote network installation server. This so the client can startup from network and install the software?
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holizz wrote on the 19 Jul 08 at 20:20
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Good idea. Wubi for not-Windows.
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andruk wrote on the 20 Jul 08 at 07:29
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I think loki has it right. This would be difficult to do across the web (as well as slow). Having a setting in the LiveCD to basically act as an image server would be a welcome addon (it would also help me image 40 tablets every semester).
+1
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tommynz1975 wrote on the 27 Aug 08 at 02:37
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i might see where you are going
partitioning is scary and can get messed up..
You want a file to look at your hardware spec's shown by windows..
you want it to partiton from within windows the hard drive.
you want then for the install process to start from windows installing onto the newly created D:\ [sdb, hdb]
drive. grub will go where grub is ment to go.
you want file sharing between ntfs and ext3 setup for you.
you want a idiot proof dual boot install.
Have I understood you??
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