On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm certainly fine to put work into this for those who want to use it, but > I never boot any existing OS before installing Debian, and I'm sure I'm > not alone. It's extremely useful to be able to install Debian on bare > metal (or a newly-replaced factory hard drive) or on a system whose > existing OS install is hopelessly broken.
I'd wager that the win32-loader style approach is vastly more user-friendly for inexperienced users than existing workflows, especially in the face of WiFi/Ethernet chips that require non-free firmware loaded by the OS. Of course the OS-free manual download, manually figure out which firmware is needed, manually write to media and manually figure out how to boot d-i approach is going always to be necessary for experts and certain situations. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
