[Lubuntu-comms] Fwd: One Button Installer, 'OBI'

[Phill Whiteside]

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On 13 September 2013 23:33, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2013-09-13 23:58, Aere Greenway 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.
> >
> There are several warnings, see the big one in the second attached
> picture in the opening post of this thread in the Ubuntu Forums
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172971
>
> WARNING Copy the data you want to keep to another device, for
> WARNING example an external hard disk drive or a cloud service!
> WARNING
> WARNING When you run this installer, a new operating system will
> WARNING be installed, so the device will be formatted and
> WARNING
> WARNING **********  COMPLETELY OVERWRITTEN  *********
> WARNING
> WARNING There will be no easy way to recover any previous data.
> WARNING Expensive intelligence services might restore some data.
>
> I think you would have noticed it ;-)
>
> Making the OBI a dual boot installer would defeat its purpose. I think
> it is better to use the existing installers to do that, the alternate
> installer, if there is too little RAM or problems with the graphics for
> the desktop installer.
>
> Best regards/Nio
>
>
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