On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > i'm getting increasingly frustrated with the weirdness i'm having to > deal with just trying to create a bootable USB drive containing centos > 6.5, so if anyone out there understands this stuff and has a couple > free hours this weekend, i would be delighted to pay for your time to > come by and debug this, as i have just too much other stuff to do > before monday morning. > > i'm working at the code factory on gloucester downtown, so if you're > interested, and want to do this either this afternoon or sometime > tomorrow, that would be great. i'm sure there's something simple i'm > missing, but i can't spend any more time on it. > > if you want to call, it's 613-266-2902. > My Dell Inspiron 17R just showed up on Friday and I was planning hacking Ubuntu 12.04 or Debian 7.0 on to it this weekend. I'm sure I'll have to deal with EFI in the process. I'll be heading to http://www.exploriem.org/ which is off the 416 by IKEA. I don't have a problem hacking together for a bit. -- Paul Belanger | PolyBeacon, Inc. Jabber: paul [ dot ] belanger [ at ] polybeacon [ dot ] com | IRC: pabelanger (Freenode) Github: https://github.com/pabelanger | Twitter: https://twitter.com/pabelanger