Idea #9246: Tool for easy migration of wubi install to native

This idea was marked as being in development the 30 May 08. Target release: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.

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Written by slavix the 29 May 08 at 23:07. Category: Installation.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: In development

Description

People who use wubi install to try the system would benefit from a tool that would make it easy to migrate the install to a native (partition) install.

Tags: wubi

Developer comments

This is planned for 8.10 but the spec is not finished yet. I will update the blueprint when it's published.

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Duplicates

Idea #10721: migrate "inside windows" installation to full disk/partition installation (10 votes)

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Comments

unimatrix wrote on the 30 May 08 at 11:30

YES 1000x! This must be top priority!

madjr wrote on the 16 Jun 08 at 09:58

yes, LVPM

http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm.html

aelfwyne wrote on the 15 Jul 08 at 03:55

This should easily be integrated with a tool to move/copy an entire ubuntu install to a new drive, which has been requested elsewhere on brainstorm. I would think the mechanisms are pretty similar in the two tasks - the only difference is in the types of filesystems that have to be dealt with. However, both cases require creation of a new partition, reconfiguration of boot loaders, and migration of files within the filesystem.

HighInBC wrote on the 29 Sep 08 at 00:19

If this can be accomplished without things getting "wonky" then great!

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