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"dobey" <a@v.nox> wrote in message 
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> "dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> wrote in message 
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>> "caver1" <caver@inthemud.com> wrote in message 
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>>> dennis@home wrote:
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>>>> "Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message 
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>>>>>
>>>>> The same reason that GW Bush doesn't announce when he's NOT going to 
>>>>> bomb somebody, because then there's nothing to worry about, is there? 
>>>>> Are you know complaining that Linux doesn't constantly warn you when 
>>>>> nothing is wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> Christ almighty, what is wrong with this?
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>>>> Its a poor analogy? Who knows what else is wrong with what you said?
>>>>
>>>>> You are saying that someone with your claimed experience cannot 
>>>>> understand a simple message like this one?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.tames.net/screenshot.jpg
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>>>> So which of those partitions has data on that is going to be destroyed?
>>>> Answer: none or one or both or the ones not listed, take your pick they 
>>>> are all correct.
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>>> There is no pleasing you. No matter what the answer you say but- "what 
>>> if?'
>>> You're shown that the warning is there. Then you ask why is it there.
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>> You have not read what I wrote.
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>> With Ubuntu you get the same warning even if no data is going to be lost.
>> What this does is stop newbies from installing it as they are going to 
>> lose data (even though they aren't).
>> The experienced user will ignore the message as he knows it is talking 
>> rubbish when it says it is going to remove data and will delete his 
>> system.
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>> The messages are wrong!
>>
>> Its bad enough that they are cryptic but in the case of Ubuntu they are 
>> *wrong* they do not apply to what is actually going to happen.
>> Is that clear enough?
>>
>> If you read the posts you will even see where I posted what the messages 
>> said for the example where I selected use the entire disk and use the 
>> free space and they are the *same*.
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> It's up to the user to know what partitions are on what devices, so when 
> the installed gives the message that partition x will be formatted, the 
> user knows what was on that partition to start with.
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> The warning is a general warning, indicating to the user any change he has 
> made to a partition will result in the loss of any data on that drive.
>
> You don't seem to be able to comprehend the messages in context. I can 
> only assume english is not your first language.
>

They are the *same* even though different things are being done to the disk.
I assume that although English is your first language you don't bother to 
read things properly.