On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 04:24:12PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Trying with a new thread: One of the edits I did yesterday was to add a
> section for 'Installation methods and media'. So far, it is empty.
>
> Are there any ideas for doing something other than live USB sticks
> here ?

A Windows application that copies shim and grub to the EFI system
partition, adds an EFI boot option and then reboots into a live instance
loopback mounted from the Windows partition? To be fair, this is
problematic from the point of view of actually carrying out an install -
we can't really resize the partition we're running the OS from...

Last time I checked, Windows allows for live re-size of NTFS partitions, even if they are the system drive.
Could the app possibly re-size while Windows is still running, and THEN reboot into the installer?

This idea might be interesting, but I can see many things that can go wrong with it, so I think we should stick to USB media for now.

-Elad Alfassa.