installing linux is easy actually
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installing linux is easy actually
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I have incredible news regarding getting past the EULA
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by popular request (two people asked), a tutorial: https://prose.nsood.in/linux-from-windows-installer
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@tendstofortytwo I think I have a horrible idea for the whole NTFS problem: in the Windows PE image, instead of an overlaid alpine/arch install, put an ext4/btrfs/whatever image file, containing the alpine system. Make the grub config in PE boot into a shim linux+initrd (all in ram). The shim initrd can then find the NTFS paritition, move the disk image within to a tmpfs in ram, detonate the NTFS partition, replace it with the unpacked ext4 image, fixup grub configs (now with UUIDs!), and reboot
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@tendstofortytwo And voila, a Very Simple And Completely Fine chainload from Windows installer to Windows PE to linux shim to linux, very normal and not at all ridiculous
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@tendstofortytwo With enough pain and suffering, I think this also enables installing any distro that has pacstrap/debootstrap equivalent tooling. The shim kernel and initrd can even stash custom post-install fixups for particular distros!
But I think with this, the process could be made robust and reliable, leaving only "completely pointless" as a so-called problem.
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@danderson that is brilliant and if there were any actual utility to be provided to the world by doing this I would start working on it immediately
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@tendstofortytwo To make this even more hilariously useless, make a linux WIM that just boots the netboot.xyz installer, so that you can use the windows installer to install your linux installer!