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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."

2 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. What would the Slashdot position be... by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... if somebody made an auto-installing version of this, i.e. installed the same way as spyware is?

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    http://outcampaign.org/
  2. http://goodbye-microsoft.com by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think this should be

    http://goodbye-server.com/

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