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• Created: Date(2005-10-06T21:16:48Z) by JaneWeideman

• Priority: NeedsPriority

• People: NeedsLead, NeedsSecond

• Contributors: JaneWeideman

• Interested:

• Status: UbzSpecification, BrainDump (then DraftSpecification then EditedSpecification then ApprovedSpecification), DistroSpecification

• Branch: UbuntuTrack

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Summary

Installer for Windows -Ubuntu installer forWindows See InstallationUbuntuFromWindows

Rationale

Windows Vista is coming soon, and Dapper drake should be released just before. Microsoft is likely to give a windows installer for vista, so people can install Windows Vista on top of Windows XP. We have to be able to provide the same feature.

Use cases

• John wants to install Ubuntu on top of his Windows OS.
• Sarah wants to install Ubuntu on the free space (not partitioned) she has on her disk, and keep Windows.
• Andy wants to install Ubuntu on the free space he has on his C: drive (partition), and keep Windows.

Scope

Most people using Windows didn't install it themselves. They might have bought their computer with the OS included. They usually don't know about anything.

They also usually have no free space for a new partition, but a lot of free space on their primary partition.

Design

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

• Documents, photos, music files, etc. - perhaps offer automatic conversion during migration?
• Bookmarks (from IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.)
• Desktop wallpaper
• Screensaver settings
• Addressbook (via outlook, web browser, etc.)
• Passwords and account information
• iTunes and other consumer application settings

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

* Collect software manifest on Windows (either from registry or the user's menu), then do lookup of functional equivalents in Ubuntu and offer to automatically install them