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Good By Microsoft !

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Good By Microsoft !

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#2 Post by hcgtv »

I was worried the exe would wipe out my C: drive ;)
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#3 Post by garrincha »

hcgtv wrote:I was worried the exe would wipe out my C: drive ;)
LOL. I had the same thought too...I quickly cancel it anyway.

Does Debian actually install that easy by clicking on the link in a MS Window system?
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#4 Post by DeanLinkous »

downloads the files needed to start the install and modifies the boot.ini file to boot those files....

bada boom bada bing....
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#5 Post by craigevil »

Very cool. Nice to not have to burn to cd.
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#6 Post by ghostdawg »

Yes, it is interesting...the other day I used the graphical installer to reinstall debian64. Not bad for graphical.
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#7 Post by amc »

Nice :)
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So has someone tested it??
I would test in on QEMU, but I don't want to waste 3 hours installing Windows XP :P

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#9 Post by rickh »

If you install it, does it require unallocated free space on the disk, or does it just use NTFS formatted hard drive space unused by Windows?
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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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#11 Post by frenchninja »

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......)

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#12 Post by rickh »

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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#13 Post by DeanLinkous »

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.
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#14 Post by thamarok »

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.
I think it downloads the netboot stuff..

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