[juneau-lug] Install Debian from Windows

  • From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:39:32 -0900

Here's a nugget from OSNews.com.

If you're reading this on a Windows machine, and you want it to stay that way, 
be careful with this link:

http://goodbye-microsoft.com/

If you click on the "here" link, you'll get a boot loader that will detect 
your cpu architecture (either x86 or x86_64) and then start a Debian 
installation with the appropriate kernel.

You do not need to build a CD image, make your CD bootable, make USB bootable, 
nothing.  Just click.

The source code, screenshots, etc. are available on the "more" link.

The normal Debian installer lets you shrink a Windows installation during the 
partitioning step, and this installer re-rewrites the boot-ini and invokes 
the normal Debian installer after a reboot.

Ubuntu's similar installer uses a loopback partition image that lives in the 
Windows file system so you don't repartition at all:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/install.exe/Prototype

James
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