New feature specifications: install without configuring the BIOS

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Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:24:44 +1300
> Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 6, 2006, at 6:34 AM, David Balazic wrote:
>> Some measurable percentage of them will, and then they'll get confused. 
>> They thought this CD would let them try Ubuntu *without* nuking their 
>> Windows installation, but apparently it doesn't.
>>
> Indeed - remember that for many WIndows users "install" means "make this
> program usable for me *in Windows* " - they may have no concept of what an
> operating system actually is, and then get very upset when the "Install"
> button does something they were not expecting at all.

I am imagining a portable qemu on a CD: portable ubuntu (like portable
firefox) from inside Windows. I'm just imagining.