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[Paul Greindl <paul.greindl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll try to look into this tomorrow. Will experiment a bit, currently I don't know much about specifically that tool...

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> On 26 sep 2013, at 19:01, Gaetano Miglionico <gaemiglio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I have tried to start ubuntu in toram mode loading it by the windows hard disk, but also with the toram option, ubuntu refuses to umount the hard disk. Someone know how to do that?
> 
> 
> 2013/9/24 Michel EKIMIA <contact@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Hi all, I m wondering : 
>> promoting ubuntu for Xp end is good
>> but what if the current installation tools are not enough ?
>> What solution can we propose as a click & click option ( No USB boot or CD)
>> to XP users for a native ubuntu installation ?
>>  IMO nothing for now, as Wubi is dead and is not an option anyway for good performance and long time usage.
>> So we should check if such a tool is possible in the coming months.
>> 
>> 
>> What I see right now for this "tool" : 
>> 
>> 1- inspired from Wubi for starting and downloading the Ubuntu Iso ( or maybe a preinstalled basic system which would be faster) 
>> 
>> 2- At first step, install a Wubi like installation tool in Windows and boot it by default using the Windows Boot manager
>> 
>> 3- After reboot, the tool is launch in TORAM mode so it's possible to unmount the windows partition, analyse the partition scheme, and resize it to create the 2 minimum partitions needed.
>> 
>> 
>> 4- Then start the installation with minmimum questions like Wubi did and create links from Ubuntu documents to Windows documents in some way.
>> 
>> 
>> 5- Update the Windows Manager so only the ubuntu installed and Windows stay with ubuntu being the Default.
>> 
>> 6- When the user is happy with Ubuntu, propose on the desktop a Final migration tool that would copy the Documents from XP to Ubuntu and resize partitions to give the maximum to ubuntu, this step would be obviously optional) 
>> 
>> 
>> let me know what you think and if this seems useful I could create a blueprint for it.
>> 
>> 
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