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Since some time, Robert Millan has been working at a tool to make the Debian GNU/Linux installation easier for Windows users[1]. His work has been integrated on Debian Installer daily images and now on Debian-CD (tool used to produce the Debian .iso images) and hence provinding a better user experience.

1. http://packages.debian.org/sid/win32-loader

Up to now, the user would see a "MS-DOS Window"[2] while running Debian autorun to open the README.html existent inside of the CD. It was ugly and user would need to know how to use the CD-ROM to boot and maybe even know how to set the BIOS to allow it. It has improved a lot since it now instead loads a nice graphical application that loads the README (and uses translated versions if available) and minimize itself[3], the tool allows the user to reboot the system and use the Windows bootloader to load the installer without requiring any special knowledge from the user.

2. http://people.debian.org/~rmh/d-i/win32-loader/autorun/before.ogg 3. http://people.debian.org/~rmh/d-i/win32-loader/autorun/after.ogg

Update: Those screencasts were done by Robert, not by me.

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Re: Move from Windows to Debian has never been so easy!
[...] blogged about win32-loader integration and after looking the final result of it I got very impressed since it’s very easy to install [...]
Comment by Anonymous — Wed Sep 12 17:34:08 2007
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Comment by Anonymous — Fri Sep 14 00:59:19 2007
Re: Move from Windows to Debian has never been so easy!
[...] Software should be exempt from the stupid click-through nonsense!Anyway... also echoing Adrian and Otavio: Robert Millan's work on win32-loader just kicks ass. If you are not reading me through Planet [...]
Comment by Anonymous — Fri Sep 14 16:06:32 2007
Re: Move from Windows to Debian has never been so easy!
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