Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: Rick
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:07

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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:24:41 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

> "Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:13hcthh1srtj7bf@news.supernews.com...
>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:43:46 +0100, dennis@home wrote:
>>
>> )snip)
>>>
>>> It has to but it does warn the user in plain English that they will
>>> lose data if thats what they do.
>>> Linux does not warn the user in plain English in any distro I have
>>> installed.
>>> It may be fine for someone like me that would probably have clicked on
>>> expert mode and done it manually anyway but its not much use for
>>> newbies.
>> (snip)
>>
>> What were the last 3 distros you installed?
> 
> Fedora core 3, 
 3??? 3 ???? .... real current.

> gentoo (real pain that one as it didn't compile my disk
> controller in so it wouldn't boot first time), and ubuntu (but that
> hasn't finished yet and doesn't work on vpc),

... it works on VMWare. I installed using VMWare just to see what the 
buzz is about.

> 
>>What distro do you use?
> 
> None here (unless you count my nas drives, router and mail server) as my
> linux notebook got dropped and the new one is vista (insurance company
> doesn't do linux) and I haven't got around to repartitioning it yet.

Wow... from your statements, you sound like you haven't used a Linux 
distro in your life.

-- 
Rick

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