[gentoo-dev] [SoC] yet another proposal

[gentoo-dev] [SoC] yet another proposal

[Luca Barbato]

I'd like to have something along the line of wubi/debian.exe possibly a 
little smarter (get the network configuration from the windows setup, 
automatically import the users and the users' home if possible)

Do you think that would be a good SoC project?
What about having the same thing for macosx?

lu

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [SoC] yet another proposal

[Fabian Groffen]

On 06-03-2008 10:50:33 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> I'd like to have something along the line of wubi/debian.exe possibly a 
> little smarter (get the network configuration from the windows setup, 
> automatically import the users and the users' home if possible)
>
> Do you think that would be a good SoC project?
> What about having the same thing for macosx?

If you'd retain the original filesystem (perhaps issue a resize to make
room for a linux partition?), you could simply use something like [1] to
use the HFS+ volumes including the /Users/<user> homedirs, to keep your
user's home.  Importing the users wouldn't be too hard to as exporting
the OSX users.  On 10.5 for example you could use
  `dscl . -readall /Users`
to do a LDAP-like dump of the users in the system.


[1] http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/

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