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Debian Gets Win32 Installer

Posted by kdawson on from the no-CD-no-USB-no-problem dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Debian hacker Robert Millan has just announced the availability of a Debian-Installer Loader for win32. The program, inspired by Ubuntu's similar project, features 64-bit CPU auto-detection, download of linux/initrd netboot images, and chainloading into Debian-Installer via grub4dos. The frontend site goodbye-microsoft.com/ has been set up for advocacy purposes. Here are some screenshots."

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  1. Almost Too Easy? by P(0)(!P(k)+P(k+1)) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The ease with which someone could blow away their Windows install (and apposite data) is hilarious, actually; the frontpage is slick, and the Debian logo has a nice, clean svg -> png feel.

    The one thing I always felt FOSS had going for it were pious, minimalist interfaces;* goodbye-microsoft.com is no exception.

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    * And dangerous ones, like fdisk.

  2. Re:IE exploit? by Joebert · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microsoft would likely be willing to pay said fanboy big bucks.

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  3. Well that didn't work by skiflyer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just tried it, it said everything went fine, I chose the Debian Installer at reboot, and I got a grub menu with 3 choices, expert, standard and auto. All three resulted in a "file not found message", so I booted back to XP.

  4. very bad idea,IMO by CdBee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I always feel that different operating systems should be on different parttions so as to gve better redundancy and the ability to remove one without wiping the others. It was a bad idea when MS allowed Windows 2000 and 98 to coexist on a single FAT32 partition and this is a bad idea now..

    If the Debian people want to make migration easier, they should built a Win32 app that exports outlook express email to mbx and installs it into Thunderbird, copies over address books, favourites and wallpaper. THATs the sort of thing that gets a newbie linux user feeling happy.

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  5. Re:Well you have to install WINE... by Ash-Fox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can run Wine under Windows just fine. I used to-do it to get Windows XP only applications running under Windows 2000.

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  6. Re:Ubuntu+Windows not hard at all. by bazorg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem is not merely including software extras with windows, it's the way they're made mandatory and favoured over 3rd party alternatives. the EU got a different build of Windows when requested MS to remove Media Player, that shouldn't have to happen. On a Mac, if you drag Safari to the trash bin it will not drag the Help system with it...