On 26/08/24 at 05:39, Will Mengarini wrote:
I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means
it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used
Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance.
There is Tuxedo Computers that sells PC with Linux preinstalled.
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en
Ch
> a flash drive or CD-ROM are suddenly nontrivial: I need
> to get Debian's netinst using Windows, with whatever
> browser is there, then write it with Windows tools. So:
In the past I've successfully used
https://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/
tho I'm not sure if it's still working (it doesn't
On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:39:52 -0700
Will Mengarini wrote:
> I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means
> it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used
> Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance.
Not necessarily; some vendors (Silent PC, e.g.) will sell you bare
metal. However, that won't
Le 26/08/2024 à 09:42, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
Hi,
Will Mengarini wrote:
(2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash?
https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb
proposes
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Another possibility is a tool named Rufus. I would use i
On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:39:52 -0700
Will Mengarini wrote:
> I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means
> it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used
> Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance.
>
> A special complication is that I just had a computer
> apocalypse in which a Power Surge F
On 26/8/24 15:16, Michel Verdier wrote:
(2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash?
Does Windows 10 Home have that tool? Pro? Windows 11?
(I don't know yet what Windows I'll end up with.)
I don't remember but I could do that. If you don't find a way you could
install cygwin and
Hi,
Will Mengarini wrote:
> (2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash?
https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb
proposes
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Another possibility is a tool named Rufus. I would use its "dd" mode
rather than the other mode which unpack
On 2024-08-25, Will Mengarini wrote:
> (1) Will an HTTPS download in Windows
> suffice to get me an uncorrupted netinst?
> (Anything I need to know about "binary mode"?)
yes
> (2) What Windows tool will write that netinst to flash?
> Does Windows 10 Home have that tool? Pro? Windows 11?
> (I d
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On Sunday, August 25th, 2024 at 9:39 PM, Will Mengarini
wrote:
> I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means
> it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used
> Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance.
There are a number of desktop towers a
On 8/25/24 20:39, Will Mengarini wrote:
I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means
it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used
Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance.
A special complication is that I just had a computer
apocalypse in which a Power Surge From Hell nuked
*everything*,
I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means
it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used
Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance.
A special complication is that I just had a computer
apocalypse in which a Power Surge From Hell nuked
*everything*, so trivial tasks like writing netinst to
a
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