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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. A new /b/ has arisen. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If one considers the old /b/, being unchanging and resistant, one will see that our resistance was a shackle.
    By being chained to a single URL before /b/day, our prescence was concentrated and ineffcicient.
    Let our current plight of our many /b/'s being inactive motivate us to put /b/ upon a new path.

    Anonymous shall rise again to power on the intertubes.
    Let us consider water. The simplest, yet most important substance in our lives.
    What are the properties of water? What allows it to both escape and fall to our control?

    Water in it's fluid form will follow the path of least resitance. The steepest gradient. The lowest altitude. Water is constantly shifting course and maneuvering around obstacles with nothing but the constant pull of gravity to support it. Should if find obstructions, it merely avoids them. /b/ and Anonymous are like water. They have the ability to flow between channels in the event of obstruction, i.e. rule enforcement. This would allow /b/ to prosper as a truly fluid and shifting being.

    Unfortunately, /b/ is currently frozen into several channels, and as recent events demonstrate, when these channels are broken (i.e. dead), /b/ and Anonymous are broken, many /b/ are lost and the remnants are scattered in small clusters on the fringes of Chandom.

    I, Anonymous, hereby declare the movement of memetic propagation (MMPonomy, or MMPism), a system which allows an equal balance of order and chaos to serve as propgation for /b/ and Anonymous' spreading.
    Vath.

    1. Re:A new /b/ has arisen. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      /b/ is urine, not water.

      MURK LOAR.

    2. Re:A new /b/ has arisen. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I thought after 4chan, 7chan, 420chan, 12chan, 2chan.ru, etc. were taken down, you fuckers were going to design a P2P-chan à la freenet; or were you full of shit?

    3. Re:A new /b/ has arisen. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      We're working on it, the problem is that all of the information is on 420chan ...which is at the moment.

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

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

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