Bug#709004: www.debian.org: Please mention win32-loader on "Getting Debian" webpage
[ CC'ing debian-boot as well, it's most likely of interest for them, too ]
Hi,
Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Severity: normal
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I have just installed Wheezy on my old Thinkpad, and it went perfectly fine!
> Thanks for that!
> In preparation for that installation, it came to my mind, that I could try
> installing via win32-loader, since I had Windows XP running on that machine.
> So I downloaded it from the web and the installation worked perfectly,
> as said above.
>
> But I noticed, that this way of installing Debian is not mentioned on
> the "Getting Debian" page or on
> http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer/.
> Wouldn't this be good, to mention as another way of installing Debian?
>
> I could prepare a patch, if desired.
Here is the patch now (I have put it into www.debian.org/distrib now instead
of http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer ).
Holger
Index: english/distrib/index.wml
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RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/distrib/index.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -u -r1.59 index.wml
--- english/distrib/index.wml 18 Dec 2012 10:19:17 -0000 1.59
+++ english/distrib/index.wml 26 May 2013 21:09:25 -0000
@@ -96,3 +96,26 @@
</ul>
</div>
</div>
+
+<div class="line">
+ <div class="item col50">
+ <h2><a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/stable/";>Install
+win32-loader onto you Windows PC, to start the Debian installation</a></h2>
+
+ <p>
+ If you have a Windows PC running, there is another way to start the
+ installation of Debian:
+ <br />
+ The
+ <a href="http://packages.debian.org/stable/win32-loader";>win32-loader</a>
+ package contains a binary, which can be installed under Windows; it
+ provides a small tool, that automatically downloads all components
+ needed for the installation.
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Download win32-loader.exe from
+ <a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/stable/";>http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/stable/</a> to your Windows PC and execute it.</li>
+ <li>Further information can be found in
+ <a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/stable/win32-loader.txt";>win32-loader.txt</a>.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
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