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Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader" mirrors



Op 28-01-2007 om 02:53 schreef Robert Millan:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:19:53PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > This is the announcement of "Debian-Installer Loader", a win32 loader for
> > Debian Installer.
> > 
> > Overall, the process is very simple (it's been inspired by a similar
> > project with Ubuntu).  D-I-L runs on the users' win32 system,
> > auto-detects wether the CPU supports 64-bits, picks the appropiate
> > linux and initrd.gz images for netboot, and uses GRUB for DOS to
> > chainload into it.
> > 
> > This has a few interesting applications:
> > 
> >   - Migrating to Debian on hardware without CD drive (or USB boot
> >   capability).
> >   - Migrating to Debian for users who have no idea how to burn an ISO
> >   and/or how to configure their BIOS for CD boot.
> >   - Migrating a system to Debian inmediately, at any time, wether
> >   we have a boot CD at hand or not.
> >   - Advocating Debian to Windows users.  Rather than give them a CD
> >   (expensive), give them a piece of paper with an URL.
> > 
> > Frontend site for Windows clients to visit is at:
> > 
> >   http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
> > 
> > Further details (screenshots, GPLed source code) at:
> > 
> >   http://goodbye-microsoft.com/more.html
> > 
> > Hope you like it,
> 
> 
> Thanks to the rapid response from Joey in fixing #408535, now graphic
> installs are also supported.
> 
> I've added a screenshot here:
> 
>   http://goodbye-microsoft.com/screenshots/1b.png
> 

Over here is the goodbye-microsoft.com site available.
Seems an overload due popular demand.

Would a mirror like http://nl.goodbye-microsoft.com help?
(where 'nl' is a country name (which I'm willing to host))


Cheers
Geert Stappers



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