On 09/13/2013 02:41 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
The purpose was and is to make it simple, very simple. There is 'no
button' for multiple partitions. The OBI uses and makes only one root
partition and one swap partition on one drive.
Maybe in the future I might make a modified and more advanced version.
I'm thinking of partitioning with gparted, and running the One Button
Installer afterwards. The unallocated space or the extended partition
might be used. Or specific partitions. Do you think many people (or even
most linux users) need dual or multiple boot?
But it can select drives, so if you have several drives, internal and
external, the OBI can select which one to use as target for the
installation. You can install to any of several internal drives or to a
USB HDD, USB pendrive, flash card or eSATA drive.
One interesting thing to make is a portable system on a USB pendrive or
a USB HDD (at least 4 GB for Lubuntu and Bodhi, at least 8 GB for the
other systems). A cheap USB 2 pendrive or flash card is rather slow, but
usually it works. (If it can boot with an iso file, it can boot with
grub, that is used with the OBI.)
Maybe you could use one computer temporarily for testing:-D
Nio:
Thanks for the additional information.
You might want to include a warning (if you don't have it already) that
the installation will reformat the entire (selected?) drive, destroying
all existing partitions on that drive.
If I hadn't thought carefully about this before trying it, I would have
wreaked havoc on the unfortunate machine I used it on.
I think a good behavior for it, would be that if it saw multiple
partitions on the target drive, it would allow the user to choose one of
them for installation (Windows 7 upgrade does something like that).
Of course, if you have to implement an OS-prober (like what GRUB does),
that could be a lot of work.
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Sincerely,
Aere
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