On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:47:31PM +0100, "Andrés G. Aragoneses [ knocte ]" wrote: > Robert Millan escribió: > > 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. > > > Nice initiative! > > My 0.2: It would be nice to specify on the site which Windows versions > are supported (I've tried Win98 and it crashed; I guess it's difficult > to get backwards compatibility here :( ).
I plan to add a check at the beginning of the install process, so that it aborts gracefuly if your Windows version is not supported. Didn't have time yet... -- 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]
