replacement for red 7?

[Patrick Fleming]

An easy install from Windows:
https://wiki.debian.org/LennyIllustratedInstall#win32-loader
I bought a surplus desktop machine and ran this... it was so easy it
almost scared me.

On 09/27/2013 08:30 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:37:37AM -0700, Adam McCullough wrote:
>> Almost every error, crash, problem, or compile problem I've come across has
>> had at least some discussion of it, often including a solution. If not,
>> you're already on the plug mailing list, so you have a wealth of people
>> here willing to help you out, provide expertise, advice, and try to search
>> for a solution yourself. They're at least as good as what you'll find at
>> Red Seven or other places.
>>
>> Newegg, Frys, and other places are good sources of replacements/upgrades if
>> the problem is in the hardware.
>>
>> That's why, even though I liked the concept of a linux support store, I
>> never had reason to be a customer. Any problem they could fix was either
>> one I could already fix myself (with plenty of googling and trial and
>> error), or one I couldn't afford to fix myself, much less hire someone else
>> to do the same thing (hardware errors).
> 
> What you're talking about has very little to do with what I'm looking
> for. There is no problem, let alone a hardware problem. I simply don't
> have the time to the research right now, so I need someone to wipe the
> drive and install w7 for her. Later, if I can convince her to abandon M$
> completely, I can probably wipe the drive and install debian or more
> probably ubuntu with xfce. From what I can see, the bios, or whatever
> passes for one, has no provision to boot off a cd or dvd. That means doing 
> the whole operation off of a flash drive. 
> 
> 
> 
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