[Fedora-livecd-list] Google Summer Of Code - project idea

[Patrick W. Barnes]

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 18:55, Jan Wrobel <wrobel at blues.ath.cx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to take part in this year Google Summer of Code and I
> have an idea of a project that maybe interesting for you. Please let
> me know what do you think about it.
>
> I am thinking about a program that will try to get network
> configuration from windows registry at LiveCD startup.  It can check
> out if there are any windows partitions, try to mount them read only
> and look if there is registry file at some standard locations. Reading
> registry can be painful but there are some open source programs that
> can read data from this file so I guess it is doable. I think that it
> would be very useful feature. A lot of LiveCD users are Linux newbies
> who have Windows on a drive, not every one has DHCP configured and
> getting network running is a hard task for a beginner. I think it is
> important to make this first contact with Linux as smooth as possible.
>
> What do you think about this idea? Is it something useful for Fedora
> project? Are there chances that I will find a mentor if if my
> application is good enough or should I apply for a different project?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Jan Wrobel
>

The biggest issue is that a standard Windows installation now uses NTFS, which 
Fedora does not and will not support, even for reading.  This means that you 
have no way to read the files from a standard Windows installation within a 
Fedora Live CD.  FAT32 partitions would be readable, but they're a dying 
breed.  The release of Windows Vista will further complicate this by 
introducing an encrypted filesystem and other new features that may make 
reading Windows partitions even more difficult.

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