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- DeanLinkous
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downloads the files needed to start the install and modifies the boot.ini file to boot those files....
bada boom bada bing....
bada boom bada bing....
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- craigevil
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Very cool. Nice to not have to burn to cd.
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- DeanLinkous
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I assume it just starts the installer so you still have to go thur the same motions, you can just START the install from windows...
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- frenchninja
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I think that's correct, I know the Ubuntu one is a sort of image that is loopmounted. I think the Debian one actually installs to a partition whereas the Ubuntu one doesn't seem to.
The Ubuntu.exe wiki page has some interesting info on how they do it. It's an interesting idea, useful for some people I guess (one wonders how Joe Bloggs is going to get on with using Linux when he already finds burning an image to a disc and making it bootable is too much of a challenge......)
The Ubuntu.exe wiki page has some interesting info on how they do it. It's an interesting idea, useful for some people I guess (one wonders how Joe Bloggs is going to get on with using Linux when he already finds burning an image to a disc and making it bootable is too much of a challenge......)
Hmmm! Seems to reside in the NTFS disk, working much as the Ubuntu installation described above. Maybe Debian simply beat Ubuntu to the punch on this one.
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- DeanLinkous
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Wonder if it using the netinst image or the businesscard image or a full CD image? Maybe it should offer a choice of which CD image to use?
Kind of suck to do all this only to find out it cannot download because their network card is not supported. Maybe a warning for dialup users too...
I think the installer is probably more complicated than do-it-yourself and it certainly offers less choice but I guess for those that cannot consider doing anything without a exe and a mouse and clicking next, it is a good choice.
Kind of suck to do all this only to find out it cannot download because their network card is not supported. Maybe a warning for dialup users too...
I think the installer is probably more complicated than do-it-yourself and it certainly offers less choice but I guess for those that cannot consider doing anything without a exe and a mouse and clicking next, it is a good choice.
Aye, fight and you may fail, sellout, and you may live, a while. And dying in your MScash beds, you'll be willin' to trade ALL the cash, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may FUD our customers, but they'll never take...OUR FREEDOM!
I think it downloads the netboot stuff..DeanLinkous wrote:Wonder if it using the netinst image or the businesscard image or a full CD image? Maybe it should offer a choice of which CD image to use?
Kind of suck to do all this only to find out it cannot download because their network card is not supported. Maybe a warning for dialup users too...
I think the installer is probably more complicated than do-it-yourself and it certainly offers less choice but I guess for those that cannot consider doing anything without a exe and a mouse and clicking next, it is a good choice.