win32-loader (officially Debian-Installer Loader ) is a component of the

Debian Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of De ...

Linux distribution that runs on

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and has the ability to load the actual Debian installer either from the network (as in the version i
an official website
or from CD-ROM media (as in the version included in Jessie CD images). win32-loader was born as an independent project, for which only the network version was available. Later the code went through a long review and polishing process to become part of the official

distribution.

Influences

win32-loader strongly relies on projects such as NSIS, GRUB 2,

loadlin loadlin is a Linux boot loader that runs under 16-bit real-mode DOS (including the MS-DOS mode of Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me startup disk). It allows the Linux system to load and replace the running DOS without altering existing DOS s ...

and

Debian-Installer Debian-Installer is a system installer designed for the Debian Linux distribution. It originally appeared in the Debian release 3.1 (Sarge), released on June 6, 2005, although the first release of a Linux distribution that used it was Skolelinu ...

to perform its task. Additionally, it has drawn inspiration and ideas from similar projects such as Wubi and

Instlux Instlux is a program for Windows which allows the user to install a Linux distribution from an ISO image. It is included on openSUSE openSUSE () is a free and open source RPM-based Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE project. The in ...

Features

* Auto-detects 64-bit (

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) support in host CPUs, and automatically selects the x86-64 flavor of Debian whenever supported, completely transparent to the user. * Detects a number of settings from the Windows environment (time zone, proxy settings, etc.) and feeds them to the Debian Installer via a "preseeding" mechanism so that the user doesn't have to select them. * Translated to 51 languages. The selected language is displayed for user interaction since the first template, and is seamlessly passed on to the Debian Installer via "preseeding".

Similar projects

* Topologilinux: uses

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to run on Windows. *

, included on

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since the 10.3 release.Instlux - openSUSE
/ref> * Wubi *

UNetbootin UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a List of tools to create Live USB systems, cross-platform utility that can create live USB systems and can load a variety of system utilities or install various Linux distributions and other operating s ...

References

External links

Package description in DebianThe network version homepageThe network version (exe)The network version (README)
{{Debian Free system software Linux installation software Windows-only free software

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