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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. Ubuntu+Windows not hard at all. by fishbowl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Day one at my new job, the very first couple of things I did with a new Gateway P4 WinXP machine: Downloaded an ISO, some DVD/CD burner program (believe it or not, WindowsXP does *not* do this out of the box!), and then ran the Ubuntu installer, letting it resize my NTFS partition, installed, updated from universe/multiverse and have not had a single problem. Never even had to boot the WinXP partition after the initial test. (This is a job as a systems programmer so installing linux was something I was expected to do, not something I did clandestinely.)

    I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised and relieved at how well the installer worked. The reason I did it *first thing* was because if I needed to deal with a *Windows* install, I knew I would need a whole day, maybe two, to do it.

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  2. Re:What would the Slashdot position be... by byolinux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if they blamed "linux", who would they blame?

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