Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:47:31PM +0100, "Andrés G. Aragoneses [ knocte ]" wrote: > Robert Millan escribió: > > 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

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader", the project

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:40:58PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 31-01-2007 om 19:00 schreef Robert Millan: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:36:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > > > That asks for a patch. But due the long lines in the INI-files > > > this: > > > > > > sed -i -e 's/

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-31 Thread Andrés G. Aragoneses [ knocte ]
Robert Millan escribió: > 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

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader", the project

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 31-01-2007 om 19:00 schreef Robert Millan: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:36:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > That asks for a patch. But due the long lines in the INI-files > > this: > > > > sed -i -e 's/RESPONSABILITY/RESPONSIBILITY/' warning.ini > > Fixed (a few days ago, still

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:36:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 29-01-2007 om 15:06 schreef Eddy Petri??or: > > Robert Millan wrote: > > > Further details (screenshots, GPLed source code) at: > > > > > > http://goodbye-microsoft.com/more.html > > > > http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-29 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 29-01-2007 om 15:06 schreef Eddy Petri??or: > Robert Millan wrote: > > Further details (screenshots, GPLed source code) at: > > > > http://goodbye-microsoft.com/more.html > > http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=219164&cid=17788320 That asks for patch. But due the long lines in the INI

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:10:42AM +0100, Kai Wb. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Thank you very much! I hope it will make things a lot easier for people > without so much knowledge in this area. On the other hand we shouldn't > forget that Linux is not Windows (and

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-29 Thread Eddy Petrișor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: > Further details (screenshots, GPLed source code) at: > > http://goodbye-microsoft.com/more.html http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=219164&cid=17788320 - -- Regards, EddyP =

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-29 Thread Kai Wb.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thank you very much! I hope it will make things a lot easier for people without so much knowledge in this area. On the other hand we shouldn't forget that Linux is not Windows (and in my opinion don't want to be it either). But I've abandoned Windows

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:31:52PM +0100, Kai Wb. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi, > first I would like to thank you for bringing up something like this. It > helps me to advocate Debian. ;) Btw, for advocacy purposes you might want to use this: http://goodbye

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:31:52PM +0100, Kai Wb. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi, > first I would like to thank you for bringing up something like this. It > helps me to advocate Debian. ;) > > But would it be possible to redirect http://www.goodbye-microsoft.co

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-28 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Harris wrote: > question: > > does this support dual booting? I need to use windows applications - > matlab etc. but need linux versatility at the same time. It's a way of booting the standard Debian installer, which does support resising of the existing windows OS, and will automatic

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-28 Thread Kai Wb.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, first I would like to thank you for bringing up something like this. It helps me to advocate Debian. ;) But would it be possible to redirect http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ also? Because I was asked by several people which page I ment (somewhe

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-28 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Robert Millan wrote: 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

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-28 Thread Jonathan Harris
question: does this support dual booting? I need to use windows applications - matlab etc. but need linux versatility at the same time. thanks, Jonathan Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader" mirrors

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 01:06:56PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Over here is the goodbye-microsoft.com site available. > Seems an overload due popular demand. > > Would a mirror like http://nl.goodbye-microsoft.com help? > (where 'nl' is a country name (which I'm willing to host)) Actualy, t

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Millan
Sorry, somehow (@[EMAIL PROTECTED]) port 80 got filtered. In the meantime you can use: http://aybabtu.com:81/goodbye-microsoft/ -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader" mirrors

2007-01-28 Thread പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen എ|A
2007/1/28, Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Over here is the goodbye-microsoft.com site available. Seems an overload due popular demand. Would a mirror like http://nl.goodbye-microsoft.com help? (where 'nl' is a country name (which I'm willing to host)) Coral Cache http://www.coralcdn.org/

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader" mirrors

2007-01-28 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 28-01-2007 om 02:53 schreef Robert Millan: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:19:53PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > 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 > > p

Re: Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-27 Thread Robert Millan
Thanks to the rapid response from Joey in fixing #408535, now graphic installs are also supported. I've added a screenshot here: http://goodbye-microsoft.com/screenshots/1b.png On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:19:53PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > This is the announcement of "Debian-Installer Lo

Announcing "Debian-Installer Loader"

2007-01-27 Thread Robert Millan
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 a