[ CC'ing debian-boot as well, it's most likely of interest for them, too ]
Hi, Holger Wansing <li...@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 =================================================================== 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> -- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Created with Sylpheed 3.0.2 under D e b i a n G N U / L I N U X 6.0 ( S q u e e z e ) Registered LinuxUser #311290 - http://linuxcounter.net/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
