I wouldn’t consider this a real option in any way, but it is a fun experiment to theorycraft.
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iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe answer is no, because you’d need windows to allow your Linux installer to take over top runtime privilege and modify live partitions while mounted and in use. While i guess it’s technically possible, it’s so much of a hassle i wouldn’t even want to start considering it.
zorro@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
There’s WebUSB on Chromium browsers, a JS API for all kinds of peripherals. I think formatting mass storage is allowed, as long as it’s connected by USB
zorro@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I think you are right. A little bit of research seems to show that windows doesnt allow such things.
On Linux you could make a ramdisk with like BusyBox and your new image (or new image on some other drive) pivot_root then overwrite the entire boot disk to some other disk image.
It would be a bit hairy, but could be done
TheViking@nord.pub 16 hours ago
That’s the reason l wish to do away with windows.