Re: Time to drop win32-loader ?

2022-08-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 03:46:09PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >Hello there, >(please CC me on replies, I'm not on these lists) > >(live from the d-i/debian-cd BoF) > >as some of you likely remember, win32-loader is shipped on d-i and debian-cd >images, and is added in autorun.inf for

Re: Time to drop win32-loader ?

2022-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Salut OdyX, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud (2022-07-19): > That brings two sides of the question: > * should it still be shipped on amd64 netinsts, CD's, other images? > * should it still be offered on the mirrors ? > on https://deb.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/stable/ > (where it lands via

Re: Time to drop win32-loader ?

2022-08-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > I haven't checked (as I don't have access to Windows machines...), but I'm > quite confident that the Windows Bootloader fiddling is quite unlikely to > work > on modern (Secure Boot ?) machines. I think I had read some report that it

Time to drop win32-loader ?

2022-07-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hello there, (please CC me on replies, I'm not on these lists) (live from the d-i/debian-cd BoF) as some of you likely remember, win32-loader is shipped on d-i and debian-cd images, and is added in autorun.inf for automated launch on Windows machines, when USB/CDs are plugged in. What it does