[Frugalware-devel] UNetbootin

[Daniel Exner]

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:26:44PM +0100, Daniel Exner <dex at dragonslave.de> 
wrote:
> > I just stumbled over UNetbootin
> > (http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html) by chance, and I think the
> > possibility to install Frugalware using this should be presented more
> > prominent on the Homepage for the upcoming 0.8 release or at least in
> > some Newsletter.
> >
> > It would also be realy cool to adapt the Wubi Installer from the same
> > site for FW.
> >
> > And of course a UNetbootin Fpm for -current to try ubuntu or whatever in
> > swap and delete it right after this :)
>
[..]
>
> it isn't clear to me what's the goal. we have an usb and a tftp
> installer, of if you have grub installed, you can just start the
> installer from grub (probably you can imagine that in most cases i don't
> burn a new cd just to test something :) ).

Well, you can install from Windows :)

The willing Windows user would just have to grab (for -current):
 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lubi/unetbootin-frugalcurrentrev92.exe?modtime=1201311177&big_mirror=0

And one the way to frugalcountry he or she is :)

From what I understand UNetbootin will install grub and the needed minimal 
system for installation on the selected partiton.

But you are right: for Linux as a Host System there are other possibilities 
like chroot, or this debian bootstrap tool (forgot name).

Greetings
DeX