Migration Assistant

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Thu Jul 6 12:27:22 BST 2006


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On Jul 6, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Jordi Massaguer i Pla wrote:
> ...
>> I'd also find it much more user friendly not to have to boot into
>> windows to run instlux first, but to have everything taken care of in
>> ubiquity. It seems like a step easily forgotten by novice users.
>> (However booting into Win might be required anyway, to defragment the
>> partition before resizing it)
>
> Sometimes you can not boot with the CD. It happens quite often.
> ...

If that's true, then *all* of the installer would need to be ported to 
Windows, not just the migration part. That's quite a different problem.

(By the way, mad props to Samuel and others working on migration tools. 
They're very, very important.)

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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