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+ <B>Thomas Spuhler</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Install Mageia from Windows">thomas at btspuhler.com
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+ <I>Sat Oct 9 20:26:33 CEST 2010</I>
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+<PRE>On Saturday, October 09, 2010 11:16:00 am Renaud MICHEL wrote:
+&gt;<i> On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 18:24, Kira wrote :
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; No, there's more people using Laptop than Desktop today.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; With laptop, most of the time Windows is already installed on the
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; machine,
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Well, windows is pre-installed on most desktop too anyway, and has been for
+</I>&gt;<i> more than a decade.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; which means something easier to install is needed.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; ----
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; But not something like wubi...I hope it's something that can transfer the
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; exist system into something like virtual machine and can be launch from
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; grub.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Currently we still have to install from Live System/Direct Installer,
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; which is still hard and scared to newbie, especially for people used to
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; have pre-installed system on their system.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> The install of most major distributions (excluding at least debian, I
+</I>&gt;<i> haven't tested all) is already pretty easy, if it is still to complicated
+</I>&gt;<i> (or scary) for some people (and I agree that many people may be scared,
+</I>&gt;<i> although I believe most would be able to handle it) then they should not do
+</I>&gt;<i> it alone.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> That's what LUGs and install parties are for, help people with the (more
+</I>&gt;<i> complicated) first step.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> The install of a full OS is not as easy as installing a normal program (or
+</I>&gt;<i> even installing some system component for your actual OS) and should not be
+</I>&gt;<i> presented as such, as there is at least the partitioning which is a risky
+</I>&gt;<i> operation. (what would happen if the user decide he wants to stop the
+</I>&gt;<i> install while shrinking his partition?)
+</I>+1
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+Thomas
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