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hakuna-m / wubiuefi

fork of Wubi (https://launchpad.net/wubi) for UEFI support and for support of recent Ubuntu releases
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WUBI should support USB bootable external harddisk as target #161

Open JanuszChmiel opened 4 years ago

JanuszChmiel commented 4 years ago

I have analysed yours readme, WUBI source code and I think, that yours programmers knowledge is outstanding. Yours approach while creating GUi of WUBI even create fully screen readers friendly GUI. I have one question for you. How complex would be to extend WUBI so it would allow user to transfer Ubuntu also to USB harddisk? I understand, that supporting classic USB flash drives would cause unusable operating system, because big container file, NTFS file system and classical USB flash disk is not so fast so it would be usable for working and booting operating system from this type of media. But there are many fast USB harddisks available. With rotating plates. Even Windows 10 kernel support virtual memory on those disks without need to apply hacks. So I think, that USB harddisks would be also usable to install Ubuntu on it. Or is there any complex problem with GRUB boot manager or some complex problem with kernel, initrd, etc? I know, that ATA harddisks are much more faster than The fastest external USB disk connected by using even USB 3.0. It is hardware limitation and speed of USB 3.0 will be always slower than speed of ATA controller or SATA controller. I Am even ready to test some bleeding of edge code. I have two external disks from Western Digital company, which are stable,, have high quality and both have good SMART attributes for working with them.

hakuna-m commented 4 years ago

I installed Ubuntu with Wubiuefi on external USB drives. But maybe, your configuration is different. Did you try to install with Wubiuefi ? Which kind of error did occur ?

JanuszChmiel commented 4 years ago

I will be openheart to you. I have got lost in The releases page. Could you send Me direct download Link for latest stable Wubi? And where can I find wubiuefi? I only hope, that Powerful Canonical LTD will not modify kernel so this project will stop working. I can not help myself, but it have many advantages. I have installed Ubuntu on 1 TB harddisk, which have health Smart paramethers. So no crytical atribute exist. But EXT4 file system produces very slow system. And I have only installed basic system. So even NTFS file system contain big several GB file, I can not help myself, it is faster. May be, that if I would use LVM instead of standard ExT4, that it would be faster. But I have also tried Fedora and really. No difference in speed. So I can not agree with Canonical LTD developers, that system installed on NTFS virtual file container is so slow and ineffective. So lets hope, that Kernel will not be reprogrammed so this perfect project will stop existing.