@tendstofortytwo@social.treehouse.systems
Post #2299404
2024-05-01 03:09 UTC
by popular request (two people asked), a tutorial: https://prose.nsood.in/linux-from-windows-installer
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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2024-05-02 21:48
@tendstofortytwo@social.treehouse.systems I think I have a horrible idea for the whole NTFS problem: in the Windows PE image, instead of an overlaid alpine/arch install, put an ext4/btrfs/whatever image file, containing the alpine system. Make the grub config in PE boot into a shim linux+initrd (all in ram). The shim initrd can then find the NTFS paritition, move the disk image within to a tmpfs in ram, detonate the NTFS partition, replace it with the unpacked ext4 image, fixup grub configs (now with UUIDs!), and reboot