DGMurdockIII Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 if you can do it i would like to see a wubi based installer Can I recompile my own version of Wubi to support my Ubuntu-based distro? Yes, Wubi can be easily rebranded and modified. Get the wubi source code and modify the files in the ./data directory as you see fit. In particular you may want to change isolist.ini and the artwork (image names have to match the headers in isolist.ini). To compile on a Debian based system run: make prerequisites #only to be done once make make test #to test the installation within wine from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#Can%20I%2...-based%20distro? Can I use Wubi for non-Ubuntu based distributions? It should be fairly straightforward to modify the frontend (feel free to ask if you need any help), as shown above. Your Linux distribution must have a mechanism to do unattended installation using a preseed file. Wubi takes advantages of debian-installer/ubiquity preseeding, if you use a different mechanism, you will have to modify src/wubi/installer_preseed.nsh. The make prerequisite scripts might need to be updated a bit too since they are debian specific. Note that upstream files (Linux-side) need to be changed as well since normal distributions are generally not capable of targeting and booting (and rebooting) off a loop device. This task was originally accomplished by the Lupin project, but since 7.10 a lot of functionality has been moved upstream. Hence you might want to have a look at: https://launchpad.net/lupin https://launchpad.net/partman-auto-loop https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools Other affected files: update-grub, grub-installer, /etc/init.d/umountfs, /etc/init.d/umountroot, /etc/init/d/sendsigs Relevant upstream Wubi patches From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#Can%20I%2...20distributions? Where is the source code? Wubi (Windows frontend) Lupin (Linux backend) Lubi (Linux frontend) LVPM (Migrates virtual disks to real partitions) from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#Where%20i...20source%20code? this shold be enough to get you started on getting wubi working with shift linux but if you need more info on wubi check these three sites out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide, https://launchpad.net/wubi, & http://wubi.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGMurdockIII Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 bump for notice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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