On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:25:19PM +0000, John Lines wrote: > Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help > new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they > started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system > which will be required by a Linux installation.
> This could include information on the hardware, such as graphics cards, and > some things related to the user, such as language settings and time zones. > These could be written to a floppy and used to supply the information which > Debian Installer will need (a bit like a RedHat Kickstart floppy) Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount the Windows partition from the Linux installer, and read the registry from there? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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