Re: AW: Virus
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 01:19:20PM +0000, teddieeb@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
> Boblitz John Said;
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> Setup.exe? Is that really a Debian file?
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> 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...
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> TeddyB
win32-loader.exe available from the mirrors network
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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.
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