Provide a live image installer
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I would like some way to install this on a HDD/SSD on a PC, preferably with a graphical insaller programme on the live image.
There has been a lot of demand for this and I can confirm that we will be adding a live image / ISO with an installer! A few road map discussions we have touched on this but we haven't opened a dedicated GitHub issue to track this. Thank you for doing so! I'll link to historical information about this along with any future updates on adding this in within this GitHub issue.
Having a live media image should allow us to support Ventoy. #316
This is great news that you are adding an installer. I will be sure to test it and post issues if I find them.
There has been a lot of demand for this and I can confirm that we will be adding a live image / ISO with an installer! A few road map discussions we have touched on this but we haven't opened a dedicated GitHub issue to track this. Thank you for doing so! I'll link to historical information about this along with any future updates on adding this in within this GitHub issue.
Can't I just use gparted and copy/paste all the partitions to my spare SSD?
There has been a lot of demand for this and I can confirm that we will be adding a live image / ISO with an installer! A few road map discussions we have touched on this but we haven't opened a dedicated GitHub issue to track this. Thank you for doing so! I'll link to historical information about this along with any future updates on adding this in within this GitHub issue.
Can't I just use gparted and copy/paste all the partitions to my spare SSD?
winesapOS fully supports being installed to internal drives. This feature request is specifically for having a minimal live image with an installer. There are two benefits to this (1) a smaller live image and be used and (2) users can have more control over what is, and is not, installed. I'll update the title to better reflect that.
Definitely need this, tried to run winesapOS on an old HP 650 G1 with very questionable UEFI support and just booting the pre flashed USB stick turned out to be quite the nightmare on that thing lol. The current way to install it on an internal partition instead of the whole drive is also over the top complicated right now.
I completely agree, it's too hard to install winesapOS onto an internal drive today. We hope to have this addressed one day. It's a large amount of work and research to implement a proper live image installer.
I have a solution in mind for the long-term but, for the short-term, I am thinking about recommending people install the operating system using a Manjaro live image. Then winesapOS can provide a way to bootstrap our packages and tweaks on-top.
isnt there already a live installer in previous versions such as 3.0.0?
No, winesapOS never had an installer. In major version 0 and 1, we had users install Ubuntu and then we converted to winesapOS. Soon we will be pursuing a similar approach again.
Related to this, I'm documenting steps on how to manually configure a dual-boot on both macOS and Windows. It is possible that we can take those manual steps and automate some or all of the process.
@GuestSneezeOSDev Thanks for taking our manual dual-boot install steps and automating it via a script. I cannot thank you enough! At a first glance, it looks good! I am traveling for work so I will not be able to fully review this for a few weeks.
Related: #847
I will make my own version of winesapOS using archiso
I might be able to do this by extracting the insides of the IMG and converting all of those files to a fucntional ISO @LukeShortCloud @SegaGameBoyStation I will keep you updated