On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 01:19:20PM +0000, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > Boblitz John Said; > > > Setup.exe? Is that really a Debian file? > > ---- > > I thought, but wasn't sure, so didn't want to say, that no Debian boot CD > would contain an .exe file. As these are a Microsoft Windows Format and by > and by Linux as an Operating System only acknowledges their existence by > defualt and offers non-native support via APIs such as WINE... > > TeddyB
win32-loader.exe available from the mirrors network --------------------------------------------------- Since its 0.6.22 version and thanks to the help of FTP Masters, win32-loader.exe is now downloadable from the official Debian mirrors[11]. When run from a Windows host, this executable (the standalone flavour of the setup.exe available on the x86 CDs) downloads the Debian-Installer kernel and initrd and configures the Windows bootloader to allow a seamless reboot to the Debian-Installer. It is supposed to work on all known Windows versions and can download both the GNU/Linux and GNU/kFreeBSD Debian-Installer flavours. -- Didier Raboud [11] http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/unstable/win32-loader.exe P.S. I have personally used this and it works great. There is one caveat, you *must* run "update-grub" afterwards otherwise you can't boot Windows. -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110318104017.GE19385@fischer
