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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