Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: dennis
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:24

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"caver1" <caver@inthemud.com> wrote in message 
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Anyway we will forget licenses as that is irrelevant.

Having downloaded Ubuntu 7.10 and finally got it to start installing I 
notice that I get the same warning screen (identical AFAICS) if I select use 
the whole disk or if I select use the biggest free space.

>>>>>>>>
The partition tables of the following devices are changed:
SCSI1 (0,0,0)(sda)

The following partitions are going to be formatted:
partition #1 of SCSI1(,0,0)(sda) as ext3
partition #5 of SCSI1(0,0,0)(sda) as swap
<<<<<<<<<

For use entire disk

and

>>>>>>>>>>
The partition tables of the following devices are changed:
SCSI1 (0,0,0)(sda)

The following partitions are going to be formatted:
partition #1 of SCSI1(0,0,0)(sda) as ext3
partition #5 of SCSI1(0,0,0)(sda) as swap

<<<<<<<<<<<


For use largest free space.


One will erase my windows server 2008 one won't.

Does anyone still think the warnings are OK?

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