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How to install Linux from a Windows installer


I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Presumably for the same reason as me? I also don't know what that was.

Since we’ll be relying on the partitions created by the Windows installer, which will have fresh UUIDs, we need to change the fstab to use the ol' unreliable drive names instead. The locale is the language and country code, like en-US, the channel is one of_Default, OEM, or Volume, and the Edition is set for the image by the software that captured your WIM file. So download a copy of the GNU General Public License v2.0 in RTF format, open it in WordPad to set the font to Segoe UI so that it renders properly, and then save it as E:\Windows\System32\en-US\Licenses\WindowsPE\_Default\license.rtf, where E: is your Linux rootfs.

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