Fwd: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-09-25 Thread Frank Bauer
: Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:31 AM Subject: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian To: debian-project@lists.debian.org Hi, yesterday I came across an older laptop that I wanted to upgrade from Windows XP to Debian testing. Since the CD drive went south, I had the only option to use

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Frank Bauer frank.c.ba...@gmail.com wrote: So, it has been almost half a year and what has happened? Nothing, the page http://get.debian.net still installs gNewsense. Could you *please* point it to the official Debian win32-loader? Best direct such questions

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-04-21 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 20.04.2010, 23:41 +0200 schrieb Hans-Georg Bork: On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 23:06 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Am Sonntag, den 11.04.2010, 12:59 +0300 schrieb Teemu Likonen: The download link for the Windows installer points to site http://goodbye-microsoft.com

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-04-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 21 avril 2010 à 10:16 +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : BTW, gNewSense is the correct spelling of the GNU derivative of Ubuntu/Debian. Maybe, but we feel like calling it “Gee, nonsense”. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “A handshake with whitnesses is the same `- as a

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-04-20 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 11.04.2010, 12:59 +0300 schrieb Teemu Likonen: The download link for the Windows installer points to site http://goodbye-microsoft.com which advertises gNewSense. I guess the get.debian.org guys just didn't notice the change (adding a Cc). I think we really should

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-04-20 Thread Hans-Georg Bork
Hi, On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 23:06 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Sonntag, den 11.04.2010, 12:59 +0300 schrieb Teemu Likonen: The download link for the Windows installer points to site http://goodbye-microsoft.com which advertises gNewSense. I guess the get.debian.org guys

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-04-20 Thread Hans-Georg Bork
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 09:08 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Hans-Georg Bork h...@hgbhome.net wrote: you still can do so; as stated on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Loader you can still download it from http://goodbye-windows.com Perhaps you missed

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Hans-Georg Bork h...@hgbhome.net wrote: Nope. It is/was goodbye-microsoft.com which is now used by gNewsnonsense. get.d.n offers currently no win32-loader, but I've no idea when they stopped it. I stand corrected. I wasn't aware of goodbye-windows.com or that

get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-04-11 Thread Frank Bauer
Hi, yesterday I came across an older laptop that I wanted to upgrade from Windows XP to Debian testing. Since the CD drive went south, I had the only option to use the installation directly from Windows. So I went to the usual http://get.debian.net, used the win32 instaler loader from the first

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-04-11 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-04-11 10:31 (+0100), Frank Bauer wrote: yesterday I came across an older laptop that I wanted to upgrade from Windows XP to Debian testing. Since the CD drive went south, I had the only option to use the installation directly from Windows. So I went to the usual