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You can burn an image to a USB and you can restart your computer into BIOS/UEFI. You'd manually have to select the USB device to boot from to continue, which wo
by input_sh 6y ago
You can burn an image to a USB and you can restart your computer into BIOS/UEFI. You'd manually have to select the USB device to boot from to continue, which would lead you to the wizard of whatever Linux distro you chose (Ubuntu based ones have "install X alongside Windows" option in there).
You could theoretically also shrink a disk partition for a Linux install from a Windows system, but Windows doesn't recognise Linux filesystems (like ext4) natively. As a result, you can't go any further with installing Linux, and I don't know if you can mess around the bootloader to point it to GRUB.
That's talking about dual boot of course, because I'm pretty sure you can't completely replace a Windows install from a running Windows system.
- skohan 6y agoYeah I think the processes you describe would be perceived as extremely technical to 99% of computer users.
- Okawari 6y agoIf you could make the bootloader point to grub you could potentially just make an automated install partition, make the computer restart and boot into that. Then from there install Linux from there without requiring user input. Technically not installing it from windows. But the install action would be initiated from windows. Would probably end up super janky in the end tho.