Bug 207931

Summary:	Evaluation migration assistant
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dcantrell, ddumas, jonstanley, smohan
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2006-09-25 13:55:59 UTC

Description of problem:

We need to provide a easy way for users to migrate from Windows to Fedora.
Though Anaconda provides the ability to dual boot systems easily, migrating all
the user data is tedious. 

Expected results:

Users should be offered the ability to migrate all their data as much as
possible automatically during or post installation. 

Additional info:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigrationAssistance
Code is at http://www.evalicious.com/projects/migration-assistant/

It would probably help to read NTFS partitions too but that is yet undecided by
the counsel. We should atleast have the infrastructure in place to read FAT
partitions for now.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-09-25 16:49:45 UTC

Start it off in Extras?

Comment 2 Rahul Sundaram 2006-09-25 16:54:08 UTC

It probably requires tight integration with the installer so that the data is
already migrated on first login. Not sure that it can be packaged stand alone in
extras. Someone who can look at the code available would be able to judge that. 

Would be very useful especially on the desktop.

Comment 3 Jon Stanley 2008-05-12 21:35:23 UTC

Don't we already mount NTFS volumes that we find?  I'm not sure, since I don't
have Windows machines around here :), but I thought we did.

Admittedly, it's a manual process if you want to completely migrate, but ntfs-3g
has gotten us a long ways.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2008-12-01 21:51:54 UTC

Assigning to desktop gurus.

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 01:10:32 UTC

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days