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I think when Yoda told about manipulating he meant writing on NTFS volume but to boot from such volume you can just read it. Now he's writing NTFS stage 1 for this purpose.

bluemoon wrote:So how do you run your OS on a system that has Windows(NTFS) installed, and has no more free partition, without manipulating NTFS?

A windows setup program creates large file - virtual HDD image on NTFS partition, then loader runs OS from that image. All that you need is first stage loader and virtualization support in OS. I described it earlier as 1c variant.

Solar wrote:Linux and I disagree on many things.

Linux sucks, Windows sucks too. But both these sytems have features we should pay attention to. Without bias.

Solar wrote:where it is actually useful for Windows-only users to have such a thing

It is useful in case of Windows user agreed to try full featured system just in one click.