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fork of Wubi (https://launchpad.net/wubi) for UEFI support and for support of recent Ubuntu releases
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[wish] Adding LinuxMint to Wubiuefi? Possible? #4

Open Ando02 opened 8 years ago

Ando02 commented 8 years ago

I would like to see a kind of a renewed "Mint4Win"-Wubi. Could it be possible to add LinuxMint to the Distro-List or fork the project to "Mint4Win-Uefi"? Thanks for the good work!

hakuna-m commented 8 years ago

AFAIK Mint4Win uses a different Windows folder for installation, so a simple adding to the distro list is not enough. See note in isolist.ini

NOTE: installation_dir must also be changed in data/wubildr.cfg

IMHO, a fork for Mint4Win should be possible. But

So we need a maintainer for a Mint4Win fork.

If you know somebody, I would be glad if I can help.

natty1 commented 8 years ago

@Ando02 Is Ubuntu Mate no option for you ? It is similar to Linux Mint.

Ando02 commented 8 years ago

Hello,

I really appreciate your work! And I think that wubi_uefi is a fantastic project! Waited for years for something like this. (I always loved Wubi). So, I think I just have to let it (mint4win) go ... or try to learn to program :-) Thank you, hakuna_matata!

@natty1 Yes. I tried ubuntu-Mate. Nice desktop, indeed. I used LinuxMint some years ago. It was a nice ubunut-spinoff with some nice extra "Mint"-programs (i liked the Mint-Menu those days). Maybe I just use their live-CD to see, what has changed the last years. Thanks for the hint!

hakuna-m commented 8 years ago

@Ando02: Maybe, some good news for you: We plan an additional version. It is not a new mint4win, but the goals are:

Ando02 commented 8 years ago

Great! Just great!!! That sounds like a kind of wubi I always have wished to exist! Years ago I handled to have two wubi installations on my PC by manually renaming and editing some files. It was a very low-level "trial and error" work... not very progressive... :-( And wubi for other distros... Wow! Thank you so much for all your efforts!

Greetings, Ando02

hakuna-m commented 8 years ago

I uploaded a new release which provides various distros/versions. I got the feedback that the configuration "Wubi MD5" (Wubi for distros with file MD5SUMS instead of md5sum.txt) worked for "Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa amd64 build 20151128".

nhymxu commented 8 years ago

@hakuna-m what is

various distros/versions with manual download (Wubi configurations "Wubi", "Wubi EFI" and "Wubi MD5")

mean?

And how to using/install with it?

Thanks you!

hakuna-m commented 8 years ago

And how to using/install with it?

I will add a description to the Wiki as soon as possible. To put it in a nutshell, download the new Wubi version and the Ubuntu based distro (iso file) of your choice. Copy both files into the same folder on the machine and run the wubi1604r307.exe. The new version does not check a distro name or version number but it does still check required files. If your distro uses a file casper/vmlinuz.efi like a lot of Ubuntu 64 bit versions, try "Wubi EFI". If your distro uses MD5SUMS like some Linux Mint versions, try "Wubi MD5". If your distro uses casper/vmlinuz and md5sum.txt like Ubuntu 32 bit versions, try "Wubi".

nhymxu commented 8 years ago

Look great

Ando02 commented 8 years ago

My actual WUBI-Installation (Ubuntu 16.04 on Win7, legacy BIOS) works really, really fine and is sooo fast. I love it! Well, I would like to test the "Wubi MD5" LinuxMint-Installation... but then I would loose that first (beloved) Wubi-Installation. :-( I know... there are possibilities to create a second wubi-installation by hand http://askubuntu.com/questions/746562/wubi-on-windows-10 (Thank you hakuna_matata!) But it is still a little bit too complicated for me. Or I have to wait for a looong rainy weekend :-)

Thank you! Still love the fantastic progress! Greetings, Ando

P.S.: Found another (long) HowTo by "Karlchen" and "bcbc": http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2152679 ... but I think now its getting too much OT.

hakuna-m commented 8 years ago

Well, I would like to test the "Wubi MD5" LinuxMint-Installation... but then I would loose that first (beloved) Wubi-Installation. :-(

IMHO, for testing purpose it is enough to rename the folder ubuntu that you don't loose your current installation. The Windows registry entry, Windows boot menu entry and the wubildr files are compatible, but maybe a little bit different (name of the Windows boot menu entry, GRUB2 version). So you can overwrite them during installation.

If you want to restore your previous installation, don't uninstall the new installation, just replace ubuntu with the renamed folder of your previous installation.

Note: Wubi with "Wubi MD5" is not Mint4win. Wubi uses still wubildr with folder ubuntu. As a tester reported, Linux Mint 17.3 is compatible with an installation in folder ubuntu. But as I wrote in a previous comment, "I have no experience with LinuxMint". So it is only a new option, but no recommendation to use it.

Ando02 commented 8 years ago

Great! This thing is getting better and better! A few weeks ago I wanted to give elementaryOS a try. Then I saw, that there was no MD5 thing in its ISO. Allright. Happens... A few days later... "add support for new Ubuntu gpg signature with SHA512 hash algorithm". Say what?! YES! It worked perfectly!!!

Then again a few days later: "Branch changes: 2nd independent Wubi install" Say whaaat?! YES! Even this works perfect! (Yes, I know... this is a kind of "quick´n´dirty" release. But I really appreciate it.)

Tested on Win10 (64Bit) so far:

It just works! :astonished:

So happy! Thank you... A lot of unhappy Win10 (non-gaming)-users have tested their Ubuntu via Wubi now. They love it. :grinning:

Waiting for the next "presents"... :gift:

nhymxu commented 8 years ago

any lucky for wubi with debian :cry:

hakuna-m commented 8 years ago

@nhymxu Debian is not an Ubuntu based distro. It is the other way round. As a result standard method can't work because of missing files and packages. see Wiki chapter various distros/versions.

But if you want to try it with an alternate method:

cp /cdrom/pool/main/l/lupin/*.deb /target/var/cache/apt/archives/.

Suggestion: Replace it with:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lupin/lupin-support_0.57_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb -O /target/var/cache/apt/archives/lupin-support_0.57_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb

Maybe other replacements are also necessary but I am sure you will find it out.