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Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> Daniel James wrote:
>> Hi Rosea,
>>
>>> Does 64studio has an win32 installer, which makes it possible to boot 
>>> in Windows and install from there?
>> Not at present, it's not really a big deal for users to boot from CD 
>> or DVD anyway. There is Wubi, but I'm not keen on that because you 
>> lose the benefits of the ext3 filesystem.
>>
> Could be useful for newbies!?! 

Possibly, though a live CD could be considered to be "easier".  This of
course assumes that "easier" is better, and I am not convinced that this
is the case.  Before you try to convince me, first you need to figure
out what you mean by "easier".  Don't reply today, think about this for
a while.  IMO there are enough real problems to fix without chasing ghosts.

> And pretty easy to include in the 
> installer right?
> 
No, WUBU _IS_ an installer that runs under Windows.  I have not looked
at it in depth (ran a Ubuntu based on it for a month).  There would be
an IO penalty for this solution, though on modern hardware most people
are not likely to notice.  Also, it is harder to troubleshoot boot
problems and data recovery is harder when something does go wrong.  IMO
it is not worth it unless there is significant interest.

Of course the WUBI source code is available:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=198355&package_id=234923

if you want to try a 64Studio install, it does not look too hard to
customize.  Check out the data/isolist.ini.  You should also RTFM.

Hth,
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