On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Okay, that's a bit tricky: Under normal circumstances you would reboot
> need to check, if your bios allows to boot from CD/DVD/Blu-ray, and
> could then boot from your optical drive continuing with the
> installation.
Aren't most
[ readding debian-boot since the discussion is going to "their" topic ]
Hi!
Justin B Rye schrieb:
[ several improvements ]
Applied.
> If that last sentence is trying to say "without having to boot from
> it" (with the assumption that my BIOS wasn't set up to boot from
> removable media by def
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 22:45, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
wrote:
> Christian Perrier schrieb:
>
>> Given that it might be hard to explain what *exactly* win32-loader is
>> doing, I think it could be safer to drop this new feature from the
>> announcement.
>
> Did so when the discussion started wai
Hi!
Christian Perrier schrieb:
> Given that it might be hard to explain what *exactly* win32-loader is
> doing, I think it could be safer to drop this new feature from the
> announcement.
Did so when the discussion started waiting for a consensus. Seems we
reached it ;)
Best regards,
Alexa
Quoting Jérémy Bobbio (lu...@debian.org):
> > That doesnt really have to do anything with Windows. Or if, it should be
> > explained how/why.
>
> I wanted to highlight the inclusion of win32-loader. But maybe this
> does not fit the release announcement and should just be dropped
> completely.
Richard Hartmann writes:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the
>> installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS
>> boot order reconfiguration either). I doubt Windows stays running
>> d
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 13:45, Holger Levsen wrote:
> "There is also a new tool for Windows users, win32-loader which can modifiy
s/win32-loader/win32-loader,/
> the boot.ini from Windows, so it's possible to install Debian without
> touching the BIOS."
touching the BIOS to change the boot dev
Hi,
thanks Paul for the explaination!
On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
> > without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
Maybe something like this is better:
"There is also a new tool for Windows users, win32
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:18:34PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> > >> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
> > >> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
> > > What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Wind
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the
> installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS
> boot order reconfiguration either). I doubt Windows stays running
> during installation, rather it's
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the
> installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS
> boot order reconfiguration either). I doubt Windows stays running
> during installation, rather it's re
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:18, Holger Levsen wrote:
> That doesnt really have to do anything with Windows. Or if, it should be
> explained how/why.
Because the installer carries executables for Windows only (well, and
Linux).
You are right though, it should be explained why.
Why the confusion r
As I understand, this may has a whole other meaning,
when installing Debian on a HDD that has a Windows installation, I
wanted to use grub to load linux, but didn`t like installing it to the
MBR, so I installed it on the Debian root partition boot record, after
the installation procedure, I ne
Richard Hartmann writes:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:50, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Holger Levsen writes:
>>
>>> On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>>>
For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
>>>
>>>
Hi,
On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> >> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
> >> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
> > What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users need
> > to reconfigure the bios?
> To boot from CD inst
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:50, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Holger Levsen writes:
>
>> On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>>
>>> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
>>> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
>>
>> What does that sentence mean? Why sho
Holger Levsen writes:
> On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>
>> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
>> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
>
> What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users need
> to reconfigure the bios?
To b
Hi,
On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
[good paragraph deleted :)]
> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users need to
reconfigure the bios?
rega
Quoting Jérémy Bobbio (lu...@debian.org):
> How about something like:
>
> The installation process for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 has been improved in
> many ways: support for installation from more than 1 CD or DVD has been
> restored, firmware required by some devices can be loaded by using
> externa
Hello,
There is a possibility to include my banner [1] ?
Perhaps some screenshots...
Link:
http://www.debianart.org/cchost/?ccm=/media/files/si0ux/486
Thanks!
2009/2/10 Jérémy Bobbio :
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:32:52PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>> Quoting Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (ale
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:32:52PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (alexan...@schmehl.info):
>
> > Especially the second and third paragraphs need a better replacement; maybe
> > the d-i or cd folks have a good idea about that?
>
> Let's try to get ideas for th
Quoting Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (alexan...@schmehl.info):
> Especially the second and third paragraphs need a better replacement; maybe
> the d-i or cd folks have a good idea about that?
Let's try to get ideas for the D-I paragraph.
>
>
>
So, for Etch, we were putting light on encrypted p
On 2009-02-09, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
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> [ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure everyone is aware of
>
[ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure everyone is aware of
the current state ]
Hi!
Attached you'll find the current draft of the announcement for the lenny
release. Based upon the announcement for the last release it's far from
ready :(
Especially the second and third paragraph
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