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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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Can I use wubi to install Cloudready? #75

Open nangtienngu opened 6 years ago

nangtienngu commented 6 years ago

Recently, I have found a new OS - Cloudready which looks like Chrome OS. I tried to install it by Wubi but it failed. Could you make a way to install Cloudready by using Wubi just like ubuntu, linux mint and other linux OS? You can find out about Cloudready at www.neverware.com

hakuna-m commented 6 years ago

Currently, there are two different ways to install an OS by Wubi(uefi):

  1. Ubiquity from an ISO image installs the OS to an empty Wubi disk.
  2. Scripts from package lupin-support customize a pre-installed OS on a Wubi disk.

The feature various distros/versions is for the first way. i.e. if there is no ISO image with Ubiquity as installer, this way does not work.

The second way should always work but it is necessary to create a Wubi disk with the pre-installed OS.

We plan to improve support for the second way so that a maintainer or supporter of different distros can create the necessary Wubi disks. But we don't plan to create Wubi disks for all distros. Unfortunately, there is not enough time and also not enough knowledge to support every distro.

nangtienngu commented 6 years ago

I know that it is very difficult to support Cloudready because Cloudready is based on Chromium OS which is very hard to install into a PC or laptop due to lack of drivers and incompatible hardware.