replacement for red 7?

[Dazed_75]

Of course.  I was answering the question as it was asked: to remove Win8
and install Win7 before adding Linux.  If all you wanted was to add Linux
to the existing Windows, the answer would have been different and simpler.


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Patrick Fleming <plug at rwcinc.net> wrote:

> 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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