On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:45:04PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
>> Actually, I would find it significantly easier to borrow code from Wine
>> to do registry parsing and run a tool against a Windows partition
>> mounted read-only to extract the information we need, than I would to
>> write a Wind
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:24:56PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > > Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount
> > > the
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:04:46PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Are VFAT partitions still common? I thought Windows 2000 and XP both
> used NTFS by default. And last time I tried (about a year ago, I
> think) mounting NTFS read-write on Linux was still flaky.
But ISTR that _file_overwrite_ sup
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 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?
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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?
Because it's easier for Windows to read its own registry and write a
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:25:19PM +, 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
> whi
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:04:46PM +0200, Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:30:10PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> > Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem
> > which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, m
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:30:10PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem
> which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, mounted using a
> loopback device? That would do away with all the partitioning; that
> would only be nee
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:30, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem
> which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, mounted using a
> loopback device? That would do away with all the partitioning; that
> would only be needed when the us
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:22:52PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
wrote:
> Hmmm, ok, on 2nd thought there's modems, printers, and old ISA cards.
> Anything else?
What about configurations for IP, DNS, mail and news? I don't see why
it would be limited to hardware detection.
Richard
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:25:19PM +, 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
On Sun, 08 Dec 2002, 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 b
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 15:25, 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 re
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