preserving Windows 7

[Dashamir Hoxha]

If you add the package os-prober on package config,
then update-grub will detect the Windows 7.

On 07/02/2011 12:56 AM, John G. Heim wrote:
> Hi,Is there documenation somewhere on configuring FAI to make a dual
> boot, Windows/linux, machine? I have setup-storage preserving the
> Windows partition but update-grub still doesn't see the Windows 7
> operating system.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Installing Edubuntu with FAI
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:44:39 +0200
From: Dashamir Hoxha <dashohoxha at gmail.com>
To: Ahmed Altaher <ahmtah05 at hotmail.com>
CC: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de

You are right, os-prober solves the problem of
detecting the existing windows and adding it on
the grub menu.

Besides this, it is needed to create a default user
(by the scripts), different from 'fai demo'.
It is needed to create an 'admin' group and add
the default user to this group (so that the trick
'sudo su' of ubuntu works). There must be a lot of
other things as well.

I have the impression that ubuntu/edubuntu, after
installing packages, execute some post-installation
scripts that configure the system properly. I think
that the same scripts should be executed after FAI
installation, in order to have a normal ubuntu/edubuntu
system. But I don't think that I am able to re-invent
them from the scratch. It seems too much work for me.

Best regards,
Dashamir

On 06/28/2011 11:36 AM, Ahmed Altaher wrote:
> OK, Dear
>
> you have to add os-prober under package_config directory, and
> your problem is how to choose the suitable packages during installation
> so could you check and study more the directory /srv/fai/config.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ahmed Altaher
>
>> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:30:58 +0200
>> From: dashohoxha at gmail.com
>> To: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
>> Subject: Re: Installing Edubuntu with FAI
>>
>> I can confirm that with FAI 3.4.8, preserving the first
>> partition (where windows is installed) worked well.
>>
>> However I had other problems. For example the grub menu
>> that is installed does not have windows.
>> Also the edubuntu system that was installed is not the
>> same as the one installed from the DVD (a lot of things
>> are missing, in the menues, etc.)

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