Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: Rick
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:53

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On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:43:32 -0500, Charlie Tame wrote:

> caver1 wrote:
>> Unruh wrote:
>>> Rick <none@nomail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>> Oh nuts. Linux can ONLY be installed by users. It is (almost)
>>> impossible to
>>> find Linux preinstalled. Thus the installation routing needs to be set
>>> up to allow installation by users. If the installer does not give
>>> adequate warning that things are going to be destroyed, it is the
>>> fault of the installer. It is a bug. I have no idea what warnings
>>> Ubuntu 7.1 gives and whether or not they are adequate.
>> 
>> 
>> If you have no idea whether they are adequate or not, or even if they
>> are given or not,
>> how can you even comment?
>> caver1
> 
> The warnings on our local gasoline pumps are adequate but that doesn't
> stop the occasional unforeseen error or some idiot setting themselves
> alight.

... then the warnings are adequate and the idiot shouldn't be pumping gas.



-- 
Rick

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