#17107 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Installer: add "whole drive" (anyboot like) install mode
Reported by: | nephele | Owned by: | nobody |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
Component: | Applications/Installer | Version: | R1/Development |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked By: | #16217 | Blocking: | |
Platform: | All |
Description
In the "Install to" view an USB drive should be targetable (as in drive itself, not a partition on it), which would then install in a fashion similar to how the Anyboot image is created. This should allow to make portable thumb drives without having to use any workarounds.
Installer would then create a gpt table with MBR, aswell as the iso9660 trick the anyboot has, which should result in a system that would boot of a thumb drive to EFI aswell as MBR/CSM too.
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 3 years ago
Summary: | Installer: add anyboot like install mode → Installer: add "whole drive" (anyboot like) install mode |
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comment:2 by , 3 years ago
Blocked By: | 16217 added |
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Resolution: | → duplicate |
Status: | new → closed |
comment:3 by , 3 years ago
comment:4 by , 3 years ago
They are about the same thing: installer should allow to install to a disk without manually creating partitions. I just kept the oldest of the two since there was no reason to keep the new one.
As to wether this is a complete redesign or just am minor change, that's up to the developer writing the code to decide how they implement it. I'm sure they can do it in a simple way because developers know how to do things efficiently and not uselessly rewrite all the app because some person thought it would be a good idea.
I am a bit confused how this is a duplicate, the other ticket talks about basically redesigning the installer, this one only about adding a target that can be used instead of a partition.
(also this ticket has double the votes, so closing this removes it from the list of top voted tickets)