Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

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 unpacks the ISO into a FAT filesystem.
  https://rufus.ie/en/


> (3) What Windows tool will write that netinst to CD-ROM?

  https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-windows
proposes
  ImgBurn     https://www.imgburn.com/
  CDBurnerXP  https://cdburnerxp.se/
  Roxio       https://www.roxio.com/en
  Nero        https://www.nero.com/eng
  Cdburn.exe  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17657


There is also an installation path via running MS-Windows:
  https://deb.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/stable/win32-loader.txt

And (shudder) the possibility to run Debian software under MS-Windows:
  https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux
Linux CD burn software will probably not work there. But dd probably will.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas