tunic

Install Linux from a running Windows system, without need for a live USB.

GPL-3.0 License

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tunic - Pivot to Golang Latest Release

Published by mikeslattery about 4 years ago

Pre-alpha switch to Go. Powershell is the source of too many issues.
All this does is download 0.2.4 tunic.exe and run it.

tunic - Minor fixes and documentation updates.

Published by mikeslattery over 4 years ago

  • #11 - Removed MBR to UEFI conversion and replaced with help URL.
  • #2 - Downloads Grub2 for Windows, instead of using grub files from iso.
  • Documentation updates.
  • Minor fixes.
tunic - Bug fixes

Published by mikeslattery over 4 years ago

Bug fixes.

  • #7 - NSIS packaging to avoid being falsely detected as malware.
  • #9 - Bug fix caused by #7. 32 bit compatibility.
  • Added icon.
  • More noisy grub logging.
tunic - Bug fixes

Published by mikeslattery over 4 years ago

  • #2 Better handling of a double install
  • #7 Hopefully, less likely to be falsely detected as malware
tunic - MVP bug fix

Published by mikeslattery over 4 years ago

  • Some versions of grubx64.efi do not work with Tunic. Now always using the Ubuntu 18.04 version.
  • Closed 2 tickets submitted by github users

Future follow-up:

  • Use the same grub version for all files, not whatever comes on each .iso.
tunic - MVP Release

Published by mikeslattery over 4 years ago

  • All Mint and Ubuntu official flavors
  • Include external .iso files in ~/Downloads
  • MBR to UEFI conversion
  • Windows 7 support (but not well tested)
  • Stop if Windows Update is running
  • Misc minor bug fixes
tunic - First Usable Release

Published by mikeslattery over 4 years ago

  • Support for 3 Linux Mint 64 bit spins: Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce
  • Full disk install added.
  • All testing has been with Windows 10 in a VirtualBox VM.

Known Issues:

  • Quit button doesn't work in install progress page; GUI is single threaded.
  • iso file is not yet integrity checked
tunic - First release

Published by mikeslattery almost 5 years ago

The first release for testing purposes.