Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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

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On Oct 16, 11:44 pm, Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlm...@t-online.de>
wrote:
> dennis@home wrote:
>
> > The fact that I can't show the warning is just evidence that it doesn't
> > exist.
>
> The "fact" that you can't show the warning is evidence that you are lying.
> Or too stupid to even attempt a linux install. Or both

Ok, I never saw a warning.  I started using computer since before
Apple ][
If some of you know, it is called the "Superboard", and I have used
computer for 25 years.  I can program all the way from micro-code,
machine code, all the way to C, Java, Python, and Ruby.

Anyways, I didn't see any warning, and the Ubuntu tech support said
this is a bug that it didn't detect Vista.

Also, the word "Partition" may have a strong "erasing the whole hard
drive" connotation to the Linux guys.  But it also may have a
"dividing the data" connotation to people.  Depending on its usage,
sometimes people may think that it is merely creating a new partition
for the Linux installation.  So between the two possible meanings, why
assuming there is absolutely no confusion and just go ahead with the
destructive action?

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Subject: Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:22:30 -0700
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