Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Thu 10th Jul 2008 08:35 UTC, submitted by Zephyrcat
Fedora Core Though features are not yet being officially accepted for Fedora 10, there are already plenty of great proposed features. We can only hope they make it into the final release!
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Live CD Without the CD?
by elliott1787 on Thu 10th Jul 2008 08:52 UTC
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2008-07-03

Live CD Without the CD - Instead of creating a program like Wubi to let you do a special partitioning-free installation from Windows, the plan here is to make a Windows program that essentially lets you run the live CD straight from the ISO image on your hard drive.

Like we can already do with VitrualBox or any of the other virtualization software?

RE: Live CD Without the CD?
by Rahul on Thu 10th Jul 2008 09:41 in reply to "Live CD Without the CD?"
Rahul Member since:
2005-07-06

The feature proposal for installation from Windows seems to be based on

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/InstallFromWindows has more details.

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RE: Live CD Without the CD?
by ebasconp on Thu 10th Jul 2008 13:33 in reply to "Live CD Without the CD?"
ebasconp Member since:
2006-05-09

Several options to do this:

* Provide a VMware (or QEMU or Bochs or VirtualBox) image and start the "LiveCD" inside it.

* Compile all the Fedora environment on top of Cygwin and run the stuff inside there (this is quite ridiculous because it is not feasible).

* Use coLinux kernel instead of the Fedora one [Ubuntu has a version using this approach].

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RE[2]: Live CD Without the CD?
by gilboa on Thu 10th Jul 2008 16:42 in reply to "RE: Live CD Without the CD?"
gilboa Member since:
2005-07-06

... Or have grub/ntloader loop-mount a ext3/iso-image from from your FAT32/NTFS drive and boot from it.

- Gilboa

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