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tendstofortytwo :blobcattea:

installing linux is easy actually
29 April at 3:46 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
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david :unverified: :vbus:
tendstofortytwo :blobcattea:

@david step 1 is installing linux on an NTFS partition. this is easy because of the in-kernel NTFS driver, ntfs3. use the windows_names and acl mount options to keep things compatible

step 2 is to add to the NTFS partition a copy of winpe that will install the linux bootloader for you (the windows installer will only install a windows bootloader, so it'll boot into this and this will boot you into linux)

step 3 is using imagex to capture the NTFS partition to a WIM file and putting that into a Windows ISO

step 4 is crying cause the installer fails for the reason I told ivy in the other thread

@david step 1 is installing linux on an NTFS partition. this is easy because of the in-kernel NTFS driver, ntfs3. use the windows_names and acl mount options to keep things compatible

step 2 is to add to the NTFS partition a copy of winpe that will install the linux bootloader for you (the windows installer will only install a windows bootloader, so it'll boot into this and this will boot you into linux)

29 April at 4:46 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Ivyyy :antiverified:

@tendstofortytwo
does the installing windows at the bottom change to installing linux?

29 April at 4:08 | Open on masto.ai
tendstofortytwo :blobcattea:

@hexadecimal_dinosaur unfortunately no, the installer crashes because it can't find an EULA in the Linux image

and believe me I tried to put one in there as hard as I could

29 April at 4:42 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
the yellow floofy neocat
lily 🏳️‍⚧️

@tendstofortytwo@treehouse.systems how do wim files work. could you actually make one that installs linux

29 April at 9:20 | Open on possum.city
Joshua Scarsbrook
Jiub

@tendstofortytwo that's so blursed! i love how it only died trying to find the eula, that's so microsoft.

also til that the ntfs kernel driver has full read/write support, i had missed that development :3

29 April at 16:59 | Open on tech.lgbt
tendstofortytwo :blobcattea:

@jiub yeah!! it's great you can just install linux on NTFS and it Just Works™

(you have to recompile the initramfs on alpine since they don't put the ntfs3 kernel module in it, even though it is in the rootfs)

(you have to pass rootfstype=ntfs3 in the kernel cmdline otherwise arch won't boot)

(other distros probably have other issues)

29 April at 17:04 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Jiub

@tendstofortytwo that's wild! clearly i need to follow kernel development more closely.

now i kinda want to see if it's possible to boot both windows and linux from the same ntfs volume :nkoevil:

29 April at 17:10 | Open on tech.lgbt
tendstofortytwo :blobcattea:

@jiub I kinda (?) did that! it was winpe + linux, not windows proper, but I assume that should be possible as well

29 April at 17:35 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Jiub

@tendstofortytwo nice! it seems like it should work since the directories shouldn't conflict. i can imagine having to do some manual bootloader configuration but that's not that big of a deal

29 April at 17:45 | Open on tech.lgbt
Nafeon :verified_solarpunk:

@tendstofortytwo can't argue with the supposedly much simpler windows setup.

29 April at 17:00 | Open on bears.town
tendstofortytwo :blobcattea:

I have incredible news regarding getting past the EULA
29 April at 22:20 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Fred Brooker
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