[Wolves] Ubuntu Installer

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 14:47 +0000, ArchLinuxUser dick_turpin wrote:
> On 20/02/2008, Dave Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >  As to why others haven't picked up on it yet.... I think it's because in
> >  Ubuntu land it's known that people start with the live cd then dual boot
> >  then move onto using Linux full time.
> 
> Hm, pretty much everyone has been offering live CD/DVD with desktop
> installers for a while now, openSUSE will even let you install from a
> Live Windows session. If it works as well as you say I'm still
> surprised that Fedora ect has not jumped on it.
> 
> I take it that it will only pick up profiles on the same HDD then? So
> in other words if you was looking to resize the partition (not erase)
> you should be good to go?
> 
> > However I think others just want
> >  you to use theirs only, really.  (over simplifying greatly I'm sure)
> >  But things like fedora most of their work then winds up in RHEL well if
> >  your paying for a system then on the whole your only likely to have that
> >  system on your machine (If that makes sense).
> 
> Yes but if you decided that the Ubuntu install was a bag of doggy doo
> doo you could install Fedora using the importer, makes sense to me.
> 
> With regards RHEL that goes without saying.
> 
No it just needs to be on the same machine as I understand it.  It'll
work with a resize or if Windows etc is on another drive that ubuntu
isn't using.
-- 
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