K_Dase
August 8th, 2015, 10:26 AM
Hi,
I am using Windows 8.1 at the moment. I have shrink my C drive (Windows comes pre-installed in my laptop) and allotted 15Gb of free space for using Ubuntu.
I don't want to go the usual way of installing Ubuntu, but rather would like to:
1. Create mkfs.ext4 on the free space.
2. Copy the files from Live USB to Stable Install.
3. Modify the EFI by adding grub loader in Windows EFI file.
So, my question is, what all files do I need to add/copy to ext4 formatted free space on the drive? Do I also need to create SWAP partition in that case?
And using EFI grub loader from say Fedora to Ubuntu will work and vice versa?
I am somewhat aware that we need to few files like /isolinux/vmlinuz0, /isolinux/initrd0.img, but as a general rule, how do I bypass the normal installation and boot the live cd as plain installation mode.
Thank you.
I am using Windows 8.1 at the moment. I have shrink my C drive (Windows comes pre-installed in my laptop) and allotted 15Gb of free space for using Ubuntu.
I don't want to go the usual way of installing Ubuntu, but rather would like to:
1. Create mkfs.ext4 on the free space.
2. Copy the files from Live USB to Stable Install.
3. Modify the EFI by adding grub loader in Windows EFI file.
So, my question is, what all files do I need to add/copy to ext4 formatted free space on the drive? Do I also need to create SWAP partition in that case?
And using EFI grub loader from say Fedora to Ubuntu will work and vice versa?
I am somewhat aware that we need to few files like /isolinux/vmlinuz0, /isolinux/initrd0.img, but as a general rule, how do I bypass the normal installation and boot the live cd as plain installation mode.
Thank you.