Aere, One Button Install is just that. Same as popping in a XP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 disk.... One button, install the system :D No arguments etc. Wonderfully simple.
Regards, Phill. On 13 September 2013 22:58, Aere Greenway <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Sincerely, > Aere > > > > -- > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~**lubuntu-comms<https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms> > Post to : > [email protected].**net<[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~**lubuntu-comms<https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms> > More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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