Wubi was an easy way to install Ubuntu alongside Windows without any knowledge or partionning. Installing Ubuntu 12.04 was as easy as running an exe application.
Here is a recent video to show you how it works
This is a fantastic way to install a new OS on a computer.
I saw that Wubi is more or less maintained on github (I didn’t test this)
I recently used something similar to install Q4OS(Installer for Windows).
Now, each time I boot my computer, I remember that I can using Linux too.
Wouldn’t it be a nice project for Haiku ? Maybe for Gsoc ?
Good to know! But is it to install on FAT volume as in to take over partition and format into BFS or make image file within FAT (like Wubi/Wubiuefi) does without modifing FAT partition and data?
If we need NTFS support, we could try NTFS-3G, which is open-sourced I believe:
As you can probably see with the link preview, their description curiously mentions Haiku - someone will have to have a look at the code and determine whether it is feasible to use for Haiku.
Our current NTFS driver is based on NTFS-3G already. It doesn’t work very well. I don’t know if it’s the fault of NTFS-3G, because we use an old version, or because it’s not well integrated in Haiku.
So there is nothing curious about it mentionning us
I think we are still on the latest version (from 2017), at least I don’t see a newer version than that.
The problems are mostly in our integration layer, which could really use a complete overhaul, and integration into our caching system, which it does not presently use at all.
