Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: Jean-David Beyer
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:42

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Stephan Rose wrote:

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> 
> Dennis, it does not matter. Seriously, it does not matter. No matter how 
> much you spell it out, no matter how detailed one explains...some user in 
> this world simply will NOT get it.
> 
You know, all this brouhaha about erasing a hard drive?

Let us put the shoe on the other foot. Say you have a Linux system and you
want to install a Windows system on it -- dual boot. Is that easier and
clearer than the way the OP complains of?

I know it is much simpler to install Windows first, but say I do not want
to. (This is a rhetorical question, although I did install Windows XP once
on a machine already running Red Hat Linux 7.3. I made three full-backup
tapes of the system first (cannot be too careful), installed Win XP which
clobbered the first of three hard drives, then restored the Linux stuff (and
boot block) of the first hard drive from backup tape. Worked fine with no
surprises.)

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