Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Using Instlux: issues setting up SUSE from Windows
BTW: http://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=CrossToolchain%3Amingw speziell: cross-mingw-gcc "GCC cross-compiler for Windows targets This is the standard GCC, modified for use in cross-development. The GNU compiler collection only supports cross-compilation in C and C++, so those are the only two languages prepared. It is intended for people who want to develop for a Windows target from your desktop computer." => /opt/cross/bin/i386-mingw32msvc-gcc -o foobar.exe foobar.c --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
I would like to go even further and feature-request openSUSE setup on NTFS entirely ! ! ! Is it possible to achieve ? -NTFS capabilities: I don't know for sure, but it looks like NTFS-3g has enough POSIX compatibility to make it possible to install openSUSE on ntfs-3g partition entirely. That is - mount "/" partition on NTFS, as well as swap-on-NTFS. -How to install ? I have theoretical alternative: use RPM for Cygwin to just install openSUSE distro on local Windows folder, without rebooting and going through Yast-setup. Some easy setup could be built very quickly for Windows (using InnoSetup) Then we will need just to reboot into openSUSE to start the new system ! -What this will require from openSUSE? probably integrating ntfs-3g into the ditrso, plus building initrd with ntfs-3g, so that the kernel can mount the "/" partition. What do you think about it? Please help me push ntfs-3g into openSUSE ! https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247750 -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
This page indicates that it is indeed possible to run Linux OS on NTFS partition: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#rootfs Having Linux on NTFS can bring us to serious revolution across Windows users ! A real revolution in how Windows users *think* about openSUSE ! But we have to make it simple for the Windows crowd to install openSUSE on the same NTFS partition as Windows. (such as C:\) This means either enhance our current "Basic Setup Routine" and "Yast-setup" to handle those new requirements easily, or we need to write completely new (Windows-based) setup for openSUSE distro. Plus, We can go both directions at once. :) -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
This page indicates that it is indeed possible to run Linux OS on NTFS partition: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#rootfs
Having Linux on NTFS can bring us to serious revolution across Windows users ! A real revolution in how Windows users *think* about openSUSE !
Oh, really.
But we have to make it simple for the Windows crowd to install openSUSE on the same NTFS partition as Windows. (such as C:\)
"we" ? Sure, go ahead, implement a proof-of-concept then come back with "!!!".
This means either enhance our current "Basic Setup Routine" and "Yast-setup" to handle those new requirements easily, or we need to write completely new (Windows-based) setup for openSUSE distro. Plus, We can go both directions at once. :)
Go ahead. The source code is available.
PS: opensuse-factory: "Discussion about all Alpha, Beta, RC and Factory
versions of openSUSE"
http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#Development_Lists
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-o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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Pascal Bleser wrote:
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Alexey Eremenko wrote:
This page indicates that it is indeed possible to run Linux OS on NTFS partition: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#rootfs
Having Linux on NTFS can bring us to serious revolution across Windows users ! A real revolution in how Windows users *think* about openSUSE !
Oh, really.
But we have to make it simple for the Windows crowd to install openSUSE on the same NTFS partition as Windows. (such as C:\)
"we" ? Sure, go ahead, implement a proof-of-concept then come back with "!!!".
This means either enhance our current "Basic Setup Routine" and "Yast-setup" to handle those new requirements easily, or we need to write completely new (Windows-based) setup for openSUSE distro. Plus, We can go both directions at once. :)
Go ahead. The source code is available.
PS: opensuse-factory: "Discussion about all Alpha, Beta, RC and Factory versions of openSUSE" http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#Development_Lists
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This is the best laugh I've had in a week or two. He left out asking for crashes and BSOD. I state - LINUX IS NOT WINDOWS, nor is it a Windows clone. Learn it or leave it. Not all Windows users are hard-of-learning and most Linux users were once and perhaps are still Windows users, me an exception, I could never use the stuff without uttering a constant stream of expletives and curse every call I get to help solve the many Windows problems people land on me. On Sunday I went to fix a Windows box and had a discussion with 2 very bright lads who thought Bill Gates had invented the computer. I just took them back in history as far as Eckert and Mauchly, Univac and IBM - the computer before Bill Gates was born. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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