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Bug 802625

Summary: Installation Program Does Not Support NTFS For Hard Drive Installation
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Ma Hsiao-chun <damage3025>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version: 6.2Keywords: Reopened
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Description Ma Hsiao-chun 2012-03-13 05:47:32 UTC
According to the documentation of both RHEL and Fedora. The Installation Program cannot find and utilize images in an NTFS partition.
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-steps-hd-installs-x86.html
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/s1-steps-hd-installs-x86.html

I hope you can add NTFS support Installation Program. May be the Installation Kernel is more accurate.

Rationale 1.
Most Microsoft Windows people today use NTFS exclusively. Enabling Hard Drive Installation for such people would make switching to RHEL or Fedora more smooth.

Rationale 2.
Installation Program would read NTFS partition only. Therefore it should be quite safe.

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2012-03-19 21:12:09 UTC
We cannot include this support in RHEL.  Sorry.

Comment 3 Ma Hsiao-chun 2012-03-20 02:32:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> We cannot include this support in RHEL.  Sorry.

Why?

Some other distributions do offer win32 installation option.
http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Instlux
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer

Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2012-03-20 12:50:21 UTC
NTFS support is a legal grey area, so we do not want to get into that.

Comment 5 Ma Hsiao-chun 2012-03-20 13:00:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> NTFS support is a legal grey area, so we do not want to get into that.

Thank you very much. I got it.