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Re: Draft for lenny release announcement



[ readding debian-boot since the discussion is going to "their" topic ]
Hi!


Justin B Rye schrieb:

[ several improvements ]

Applied.


> If that last sentence is trying to say "without having to boot from
> it" (with the assumption that my BIOS wasn't set up to boot from
> removable media by default in the first place) then I would suggest:
> 
>   The installer can also be started directly from Microsoft Windows.

Okay, that's a bit tricky:  Under normal circumstances you would reboot
need to check, if your bios allows to boot from CD/DVD/Blu-ray, and
could then boot from your optical drive continuing with the
installation.  With win32-loader you can insert your disc while running
windows.  It will add an entry to Windows boot loader (including some
settings like timezone and language IIRC) and when you reboot you can
start the installation process from windows boot menu without needing to
check your bios settings.  (d-i folk, is that summary correct?)

There was some discussion on the debian-boot list about that, while
searching for a good phrase for that.  Currently that sentence has been
removed, but maybe you can come up with something?



Best regards,
  Alexander

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