This is the announcement of "Debian-Installer Loader", a win32 loader for Debian Installer.
Overall, the process is very simple (it's been inspired by a similar project with Ubuntu). D-I-L runs on the users' win32 system, auto-detects wether the CPU supports 64-bits, picks the appropiate linux and initrd.gz images for netboot, and uses GRUB for DOS to chainload into it. This has a few interesting applications: - Migrating to Debian on hardware without CD drive (or USB boot capability). - Migrating to Debian for users who have no idea how to burn an ISO and/or how to configure their BIOS for CD boot. - Migrating a system to Debian inmediately, at any time, wether we have a boot CD at hand or not. - Advocating Debian to Windows users. Rather than give them a CD (expensive), give them a piece of paper with an URL. Frontend site for Windows clients to visit is at: http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ Further details (screenshots, GPLed source code) at: http://goodbye-microsoft.com/more.html Hope you like it, -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
