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Edward W. Thompson <thomeduk1@btopenworld.com> wrote in
news:oidgh3tib7cept0tno010nn6l32ukdab8j@4ax.com: 

> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:24:13 +0100, "dennis@home"
> <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>>"Stephan Rose" <nospam@spammer.com> wrote in message 
>>news:uOSdnfizv4RUE4vanZ2dnUVZ8rOdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>
>>>
>>> And honestly, I find "...this will destroy all data..."
>>> to be more than clear enough. If someone can't understand
>>> the meaning of that I wonder if they should be allowed to
>>> operate a toaster...nevermind actually installing an
>>> operating system. 
>>
>>Well yes its perfectly clear as long as you know what
>>"data" is. So even a simple statement like that is assuming
>>the user is computer literate.
>>I can easily see people thinking "well I didn't buy any
>>data so I don't have any to destroy".

>>Its easy to make assumptions when you know about a subject.

Read that again. BTW, "It's".

> I do not think I am a neophyte wrt computers having cut my
> teeth on DOS and used all flavours of Windows plus having
> built several machines.  However, I did not find installing
> Ubuntu on a WINXP Pro machine intuitive.  The actual
> installation was relatively staright forward except when it
> came to the part to choose how to format/partition the
> drive on which to install Ubuntu.  It is apparent to me
> that anyone could slip up here with disasterous
> consequences. Choosing 'manual' is clearly the the safest
> way to go. 

Get a spell checker for fuck's sake. wrt? disasterous?

Manual is ALWAYS the way to go, unless you're a clueless idiot 
Windows Disasta was designed for. 

> Of course once you have gone through the exercise it  all
> becomes 'obvious' and this is the mistake many opf the
> contributors to this thread seem to make.

I thought it was the OP who made that mistake.

> The only test
> for how intuitive the installation process is, is to allow
> a new user to use it.  In my case I did not find the actual
> installation particularly intuitive and as for setting up
> Grub you need a thorough understanding of how the various
> systems (Ubuntu, Grub and WINXP) identify partitions and
> drives especially if you are using all SATA drives, as I
> was. 
> 
> What I finally did, as I wanted Ubuntu to be completely
> independent of my WINXP installation, was to disconnect the
> drive on which WINXP was installed and installed Ubuntu on
> a 'new' drive.  That was as straight forward as could be
> and obviously no mistakes are possible.  I then reconnected
> my WINXP HDD and had 'fun' configuring Grub to dual boot. 
> Now it is all done and I think I have an understanding of
> the process anyone who can't understand it all must be
> mentally defficient! :-). 
> 

"deficient"

-- 
Waiting for the day when it is illegal to use anything but Vista 
on any computer in the world.