Re: [Nottingham] Installing distros via the WWW

From: Andy <andy(a)forlinux.co.uk>
Date: Thu 16 Feb 2006 - 09:23:11 GMT

I have no idea what you guys are talking, about.....
  But hell it sounds exciting :)

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 08:54 +0000, Matthew Walster wrote:

> On Thursday 16 February 2006 08:35, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > I don't think it's quite as advanced as Martin L's dream but it's a
> > step in the right direction surely???
>
> Personally, I'm intrigued by the idea of Windows saving hibernation data into
> a file, then restoring from that file. If you can trick Windows into
> restoring from an Ubuntu hibernation file... You could essentially run the
> Ubuntu installer out of there!
>
> And the best part is, if it's just a simple boot.ini setting or flag to set,
> it could be done really quite easily, and with almost no bugs whatsoever...
>
> I would be interested to hear from a developer who knows the ins and outs of
> the Windows XP subsystem, to see if this was feasible if indeed possible.
>
> Matthew Walster
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