Re: goodbye-microsoft.com Install?
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 09:07:36PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> Been reading about this install method, but can't find anything more
> current than about 4 or 5 years ago. It seems that "goodbye" installs
> Debian onto Windows' C: drive as a single large file, and that is where
> it is run from.
>
> Has anyone use it more recently? I want to install Debian on
> partitions completely separate from Windows'.
According to the README
(http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/stable/win32-loader.txt)
it downloads the Debian kernel and installer, then modifies the Windows
bootloader to boot off the Debian kernel (optionally). Then you run a
standard Debian network install, just as if you booted off optical media.q
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