Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: spike1
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:49

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In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy,
Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> didnst hastily scribble thusly:
>>Then maybe those users should not be installing operating systems.

> Oh nuts. Linux can ONLY be installed by users. 

Is that what he said?
he didn't say any, he said THOSE. Those being the ones so STUPID they'd try
to stop a chainsaw with their genitals if it didn't say not to on the label.

People like the original poster.

> It is (almost) impossible to
> find Linux preinstalled. 

Then use it as a live CD until you can find a friend who knows what a disk
partition is. 
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