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<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-12/12/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.5.1.1</p>
+1/6/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.3</p>
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<h2>Getting rEFInd from Sourceforge</h2>
-<p>You can find the rEFInd source code and binary packages at <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/refind/">its SourceForge page.</a> Note that rEFInd is OS-independent—it runs before the OS, so you download the same binary package for any OS. You can obtain rEFInd in four different forms:</p>
+<p>You can find the rEFInd source code and binary packages at <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/refind/">its SourceForge page.</a> Note that rEFInd is OS-independent—it runs before the OS, so you download the same binary package for any OS. You can obtain rEFInd in several different forms:</p>
<ul>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.5.1.1/refind-src-0.5.1.1.zip/download">A
- source code zip file</a></b>—This is useful if you want to
-
compile the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the <a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-src-0.6.3.zip/download">A
+ source code zip file</a></b>—This is useful if you want to compile
+ the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the <a
href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore EFI
- Development Kit 2 (EDK2)</a> to build my binaries (below), although the
- <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a>
- development tools are also supported. rEFIt used an Intel/Microsoft
- toolchain. Backporting rEFInd to that toolchain is theoretically
- possible, but I've not attempted it.</li>
+ Development Kit 2 (EDK2)</a> to build my binary packages (below),
+ although the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a>
+ development tools are also supported.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.5.1.1/refind-bin-0.5.1.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-bin-0.6.3.zip/download">A
binary zip file</a></b>—Download this if you want to install
rEFInd and/or its filesystem drivers on an <i>x</i>86 or <i>x</i>86-64
computer and have no need to test rEFInd first by booting it on an
Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on the <a
href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page.</li>
+<li><b><a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-0.6.3-2.x86_64.rpm/download">A
+ binary RPM file</a></b>—If you use an RPM-based <i>x</i>86-64
+ Linux system such as Fedora or openSUSE, you can install the binary RPM
+ package rather than use the binary zip file. (I don't provide an
+ equivalent 32-bit package.) This package runs the <tt>install.sh</tt>
+ script (described on the <a href="installing.html">Installing
+ rEFInd</a> page) as part of the installation process. Distribution
+ maintainers can examine the <tt>refind.spec</tt> file in the source
+ package and tweak it to their needs. The <a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-0.6.3-2.src.rpm/download">source
+ RPM file</a> might or might not build on your system as-is; it relies
+ on assumptions about the locations of the GNU-EFI development
+ files.</li>
+
+<li><b><a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind_0.6.3-2_amd64.deb/download">A
+ binary Debian package</a></b>—If you use an <i>x</i>86-64 version
+ of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, or another Debian-based distribution, you can
+ install from this package, which was converted from the binary RPM
+ package using <tt>alien</tt>.</li>
+
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<li><b><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.7/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.4.7.zip/download">A
either build.)</li>
-->
-<p class="sidebar"><b>Tip:</b> If you want a bootable USB flash drive, download the binary zip file or CD-R image file, prepare a USB flash drive with a FAT32 ESP, and then use the <tt>install.sh</tt> program's <tt>--usedefault</tt> option, as in <tt class="userinput">bash install.sh --usedefault /dev/sdd1</tt> to install to the first partition on <tt>/dev/sdd</tt>. This procedure should work even on a BIOS-booted computer.</p>
+<p class="sidebar"><b>Tip:</b> If you want a bootable USB flash drive, download the binary zip file or CD-R image file, prepare a USB flash drive with a FAT32 partition, and then use the <tt>install.sh</tt> program's <tt>--usedefault</tt> option, and perhaps the <tt>--alldrivers</tt> option, as in <tt class="userinput">bash install.sh --usedefault /dev/sdd1 --alldrivers</tt> to install to the first partition on <tt>/dev/sdd</tt>. This procedure should work even on a BIOS-booted computer.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.5.1.1/refind-cd-0.5.1.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-cd-0.6.3.zip/download">A
CD-R image file</a></b>—This download contains the same files as
the binary zip file, but you can burn it to a CD-R to test rEFInd
(and its filesystem drivers) without installing it first. (It boots on
Tianocore toolkit, and so support booting BIOS/legacy boot loaders on
UEFI-based PCs.</li>
+<li><b><a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/">Fat
+ Dog</a></b>—This variant of Puppy Linux uses a combination of
+ rEFInd and GRUB 2 to boot its installation medium in EFI mode and
+ provides a rEFInd package in its repository set.</li>
+
<li><b>The <a href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/">Nix Packages
collection</a></b>—This site creates packages for a number of
OSes using its own packaging system.</li>
-<li><b><a
- href="https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=refind&project=home%3Amichael-chang%3AUEFI">OpenSUSE
- Build Service (OBS)</a></b>—This site holds a binary x86-64 build
- of rEFInd that should install on any RPM-based distribution. It doesn't
- completely set up rEFInd, though; it just places the rEFInd files in
- the <tt>/usr/share/refind</tt> directory, and a copy of
- <tt>install.sh</tt> as <tt>/usr/sbin/refind_install</tt>.
- Unfortunately, the script makes assumptions about the locations of
- files and so is useless when files are moved around in this way. Thus,
- you'll need to install manually after installing this RPM, so you might
- as well download the rEFInd binary <tt>.zip</tt> file from Sourceforge
- instead.</li>
+<li><b>Slackware</b>—Although it doesn't seem to provide an official
+ build, <a href="http://franck-barbenoire.fr/spip.php?article198">this
+ site</a> has links to rEFInd binary packages for Slackware 13.37 and
+ 14.0.</li>
</ul>
<hr />
-<p>copyright © 2012 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
+<p>copyright © 2012–2013 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
<p>This document is licensed under the terms of the <a href="FDL-1.3.txt">GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), version 1.3.</a></p>