Can anyone make an installer for a linux installer that you don't need to leave your host OS to install it on another partition (I can't install anything atm because i lost my flash drive, don't have any blank cd's nor any floppys) Sortof like WUBI but for any distribution or a select distro. As for me I'd like one with windows drivers capablity and no need for file permissions and easy install of tar files like debian.

Is any of this possible?

Check this out: http://grubed.sourceforge.net/

if you feel adventurous, you can mount your physical hdd inside a virtual machine and use that to install anything on some different partition. just be careful not to mess in any way with your currently booted OS (like boot it again virtually, or mount any of its partitions)

Dude Pwned, i owe you one. This is great. I can finally host my things with ease. If anything i can do for you. Let me know.



How is this possible? Haven't found the option on VMWARE or VPC. Bosch? Parallels?

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Pwned, ain't no readme comes with the installer. Mind sending me a pm or post about how it works without me ****ing my computer up?

In VMWare it is possible to use your HDD with the VM selecting it as the virtual hard drive.

Ok it's possible alright, any how to's?

I've used it in VirtualBox before, but there's no wizard for doing so. you have to fiddle about in the hdd-configuration file yourself, howtos are to be found on the interwebs

@GoCheckINC,

I'm not sure about this, I just found it on the Internet. But it probably requires no additional explanation.

I can't get Been Grubed to work, it gives me a "Invalid boot.ini file, Booting from C:\windows" I tried to look for how to's, only the creator himself made youtube videos but dont show anything about this error. Any ideas?

I've seen it been done in VMware, although I believe, if you have your hard drive partitioned, you can just set the VM to boot from a Physical Drive,and then set the BIOS to Boot from the CD and Install from there.