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href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-12/21/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.6.1
+1/6/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.3
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Getting rEFInd from Sourceforge
-You can find the rEFInd source code and binary packages at its SourceForge page. 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:
+You can find the rEFInd source code and binary packages at its SourceForge page. 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:
- A
- source code zip file—This is useful if you want to
- compile the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the A
+ source code zip file—This is useful if you want to compile
+ the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the TianoCore EFI
- Development Kit 2 (EDK2) to build my binaries (below), although the
- GNU-EFI
- 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.
+ Development Kit 2 (EDK2) to build my binary packages (below),
+ although the GNU-EFI
+ development tools are also supported.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-bin-0.6.3.zip/download">A
binary zip file—Download this if you want to install
rEFInd and/or its filesystem drivers on an x86 or x86-64
computer and have no need to test rEFInd first by booting it on an
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Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on the Installing rEFInd page.
+- A
+ binary RPM file—If you use an RPM-based x86-64
+ 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 install.sh
+ script (described on the Installing
+ rEFInd page) as part of the installation process. Distribution
+ maintainers can examine the refind.spec file in the source
+ package and tweak it to their needs. The source
+ RPM file might or might not build on your system as-is; it relies
+ on assumptions about the locations of the GNU-EFI development
+ files.
+
+- A
+ binary Debian package—If you use an x86-64 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 alien.
+