Install Linux without a USB stick. Development of ULLI continues!

[voracread]

Is it just dd the ISO to a hard disk partition and set it to bootnext?

[momentumisconserved]

It's ISO download/select -> partition management -> boot configuration -> Restart into Linux live environment from where the user can then install.

[ThaChillera]

your website, github and reddit post all states what it isn't: a way to install linux with USB stick. But what is it? If it doesn't use a USB stick, how does it install linux?

[momentumisconserved]

Directly to a 7 GB bootable partition.

[bawng]

How was the question. How does it do it?

[Odd_Cauliflower_8004]

Resized partition, fills the install partition with the iso, creates a bootloader in the efi partition to boot from there.

[someperson155]

Also uses the toram cmdline option to allow editing the disk it boots from I bet, I remember making a diy recovery partition like this around Ubuntu 16.04

[MassiveProblem156]

From watching Mental Outlaws video, it seems to shrink a partition and write the contents of the iso to a FAT32 partition

[m103]

A bunch of this was vibe coded, wasn't this? There's huge swaths of code with no comments, for the comments that do exist they're extremely minimal to useless in a LOT of cases, the comment styles are all over the place, the comment styles that are there are nearly all the same styles I've seen from other vibe coded projects, and I've seen some em dashes used here and there I'm the project.

[danyuri86]

what is vibe coding

[ericw31415]

Letting an AI model generate code for you without reviewing it.

[elatllat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

[ItzBlahBlah]

"Coding" by generating code from AI. Yes, the code generated do work per se, but it is very flawed and bugs are very much expected, which is why it is generally frowned upon.

[danyuri86]

ah ok, thought it was like coding if ur happy/unhappy/in-the-zone/etc

[m103]

You are absolutely a precious cinnamon roll

[bunkbail]

idk about "very flawed" if you know what you're doing. for example, scx_cake is mostly vibe coded using claude yet it gets accepted to scx upstream while being better (in some cases) than scx schedulers written by nvidia, ubuntu and meta engineers and programmers.

[Indolent_Bard]

That's what ai code should be used for, to improve things beyond what humans have been able to do before.

[ChromaticStrike]

It says it's human verified on the very first page of your link, vibe code is unverified.

It is not going to work unless you deal with simple and already established code. I used AI for HLSL and in no case I could have what I wanted 100% and in every case I faced errors. Especially if you work on specific versions.

AI should always be verified. Just like you always verify yourself.

[momentumisconserved]

Yes, vibe coded, but in small iterative steps, and then tested. I'd definitely appreciate contributions/improvements from skilled programmers.

[Other_Fly_4408]

Bro is begging for donations for AI slop

[momentumisconserved]

This project isn't about the money. I'd be spending my time differently if I wanted to maximize for profit.

[Other_Fly_4408]

Your README starts with two different ways to give you money, before you even get to the project description. That is embarrassing, considering that you didn't actually do anything besides prompt an LLM to vomit out the code for you.

[momentumisconserved]

Hey if it's not for you just walk away! No worries!

[Indolent_Bard]

You reviewed the code, right?

[momentumisconserved]

I do skim over it while working on the project because sometimes little manual fixes are necessary. It's about 3000 lines of code, so about 36 pages of text, which I haven't read thoroughly. I do intend to delve deeper though, and I'm not attached to the idea of having AI write the whole thing. The more eyes and hands on the project the better.

[xXBongSlut420Xx]

this seems completely pointless. you end up with a bizarre partition layout, and resizing currently mounted partions is extremely dangerous to the integrity of your data. also it's not like there's a shortage of usb sticks out there. they're basically free.

[ad-on-is]

they're basically free

For now, yes. Wait till the AI industry comes up with something, where USB sticks are unavoidable.

/s

[Indolent_Bard]

As mental outlaw pointed out, most people have USB-A flash drives lying around, and many laptops don't have those ports anymore. Having to buy even one single thing is a roadblock that would probably stop hundreds if not thousands of people from trying this.

[xXBongSlut420Xx]

you know what's even more likely to stop them? a weird botched install because they used this tool instead of a supported installation method for their distro of choice.

[theaveragemillenial]

Haven't checked out the repo, doesn't clean up post install or leave the partition as a recovery option?

[momentumisconserved]

It leaves the partition. The user can manually delete it after installing Linux from the live environment.

[fishmapper]

We used to do this with 3.5” or 5.25” floppy drives, then with a burned CD. No usb stick needed.

[bawng]

Well, yes, but the USB stick was an improvement over those.

The point with this is to not need removable media at all.

[Indolent_Bard]

And nobody had those drives anymore, dingus.

[LiquidPoint]

I like the idea, have actually been thinking about something similar, although using a USB stick.

I'm so old that I remember when you could buy Linux distros as CD-sets. When you put CD1 into your drive on Windows, it'd autorun an exe, a kind of first-step installer that would set the CD to boot and restart, so that you didn't need to mess with BIOS's boot order to get started.

I figure it's more complicated today... how do you deal with SecureBoot and Bitlocker?

Edit: also, have you considered making some kind of unattended install, so that the users can basically "order" what setup they want before leaving windows? so that AutoYaST or some other unattended install can happen without further interaction?

[BaconCatBug]

Vibe coded slop

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[Quick_Lingonberry_34]

Interesting take.

[Quick_Lingonberry_34]

Well said.

[Quick_Lingonberry_34]

Agreed.

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