Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org writes:
On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users need
to reconfigure
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:50, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org writes:
On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
What does that
Hi,
On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users need
to reconfigure the bios?
To boot from CD instead of
Richard Hartmann richih.mailingl...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:50, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org writes:
On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
without
As I understand, this may has a whole other meaning,
when installing Debian on a HDD that has a Windows installation, I
wanted to use grub to load linux, but didn`t like installing it to the
MBR, so I installed it on the Debian root partition boot record, after
the installation procedure, I
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:18, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote:
That doesnt really have to do anything with Windows. Or if, it should be
explained how/why.
Because the installer carries executables for Windows only (well, and
Linux).
You are right though, it should be explained why.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the
installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS
boot order reconfiguration either). I doubt Windows stays running
during installation,
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the
installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS
boot order reconfiguration either). I doubt Windows stays running
during installation,
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:18:34PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users
Hi,
thanks Paul for the explaination!
On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Holger Levsen wrote:
For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
Maybe something like this is better:
There is also a new tool for Windows users,
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 13:45, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote:
There is also a new tool for Windows users, win32-loader which can modifiy
s/win32-loader/win32-loader,/
the boot.ini from Windows, so it's possible to install Debian without
touching the BIOS.
touching the BIOS to
Richard Hartmann richih.mailingl...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the
installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS
boot order reconfiguration either).
Quoting Jérémy Bobbio (lu...@debian.org):
That doesnt really have to do anything with Windows. Or if, it should be
explained how/why.
I wanted to highlight the inclusion of win32-loader. But maybe this
does not fit the release announcement and should just be dropped
completely.
Given
Hi!
Christian Perrier schrieb:
Given that it might be hard to explain what *exactly* win32-loader is
doing, I think it could be safer to drop this new feature from the
announcement.
Did so when the discussion started waiting for a consensus. Seems we
reached it ;)
Best regards,
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 22:45, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
alexan...@schmehl.info wrote:
Christian Perrier schrieb:
Given that it might be hard to explain what *exactly* win32-loader is
doing, I think it could be safer to drop this new feature from the
announcement.
Did so when the
[ 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
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
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.
Aren't most
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:32:52PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (alexan...@schmehl.info):
Especially the second and third paragraphs need a better replacement; maybe
the d-i or cd folks have a good idea about that?
Let's try to get ideas for the D-I
Hello,
There is a possibility to include my banner [1] ?
Perhaps some screenshots...
Link:
http://www.debianart.org/cchost/?ccm=/media/files/si0ux/486
Thanks!
2009/2/10 Jérémy Bobbio lu...@debian.org:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:32:52PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Alexander
Quoting Jérémy Bobbio (lu...@debian.org):
How about something like:
The installation process for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 has been improved in
many ways: support for installation from more than 1 CD or DVD has been
restored, firmware required by some devices can be loaded by using
external USB
Hi,
On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
[good paragraph deleted :)]
For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users need to
reconfigure the bios?
[ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure everyone is aware of
the current state ]
Hi!
Attached you'll find the current draft of the announcement for the lenny
release. Based upon the announcement for the last release it's far from
ready :(
Especially the second and third
On 2009-02-09, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl alexan...@schmehl.info wrote:
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[ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure
Quoting Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (alexan...@schmehl.info):
Especially the second and third paragraphs need a better replacement; maybe
the d-i or cd folks have a good idea about that?
Let's try to get ideas for the D-I paragraph.
!-- pUsing a now fully integrated installation process,
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