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Debian.org: Announcing “Debian-Installer Loader”

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 29, 2007

[ Thanks to Dan Warne
for this link. ]

“This is the announcement of ‘Debian-Installer Loader,’ a win32
loader for Debian Installer.

“Overall, the process is very simple (it’s been inspired by a
similar project with Ubuntu). D-I-L runs on the users’ win32
system, auto-detects wether the CPU supports 64-bits, picks the
appropiate Linux and initrd.gz images for netboot, and uses GRUB
for DOS to chainload into it…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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