[Bug 302499] Re: Ubiquity should be able to run outside the install CD

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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Title:
  Ubiquity should be able to run outside the install CD

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  This is a feature request, based on bug #189193
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/189193>.

  Some users (at least two known in the world *ahem*) expect to be able
  to install ubiquity on a normal system and then run it to configure a
  new install on that same system. This does not work, because ubiquity
  expects to find a cloop image to use verbatim as a base for the new
  install, which it then customizes according to the user's choices.

  Suggestion: When no cloop image is found:

  1. Ubiquity instead does an extended debootstrap of the target,
     including e.g. ubuntu-desktop.

  OR

  2. Ubiquity, like HTTP-FUSE-Knoppix [1], uses httpfs [2] or some
     p2p-thing like Shark [3] to access a cloop image online.

     /c

  [1] HTTP-FUSE-Knoppix, has root file system on http
      <http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/http-fuse/index-en.html>
  [2] httpfs, FUSE-module for transparent HTTP access.
      <http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/>
  [3] Shark, swarming downloads over Coral
      <http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/coral-users/2005-April/000262.html>

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