[Nottingham] Installing distros via the WWW

[Ian Spratt]

Matthew Walster wrote:
> On Thursday 16 February 2006 09:23, Andy wrote:
>   
>> I have no idea what you guys are talking, about.....
>>   But hell it sounds exciting :)
>>     
>
> Think about having a .msi or Nullsoft installer, just as though you've 
> downloaded Winamp etc.
>
> You click install and verify that this may damage your computer.
>
> The computer reboots, and when ti comes up, it auto starts into a Linux RAM 
> disk. Neato! From here, you can install it, with the packages being 
> downloaded off the net.
>
> The only problem is, how do you get Windows to boot from the hibernation file, 
> and what is the format of that...?
>
> Matthew Walster
>   
All you need is a bootloader that can load an install image into a 
ramdisk from an NTFS partition. and that runs your setup and download
theoritcally it sounds easy. actually doing it may be a bit harder

Ian