🚀 go-pugleaf

caver1 wrote:
> Charlie Tame wrote:
>> caver1 wrote:
>>> dennis@home wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message 
>>>> news:uN%23NKlDFIHA.2004@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> The partitions that are going to be destroyed are the ones that you 
>>> are going to repartition.
>>> If its the whole disk its the whole disk. If its the free space its 
>>> the free space. If you do it manually its the ones you pick. No you 
>>> cannot use the same partition for two different OS's.
>>> Of course if you say okay you might want to warn your neighbors that 
>>> they will have to shut their computers down so it won't destroy their 
>>> data.
>>> And by the way give me a screen shot to prove that it won't.
>>> caver1
>>
>>
>> Well the point is quite admirably illustrated. There is no pleasing 
>> someone who does not want to be pleased.
>>
>> It is unfortunate that it is not possible to make things completely 
>> idiot proof but it is not, and all Dennis has proved is that not only 
>> is it impossible but if anyone could prove that fact 'twould be Dennis.
>>
>> You don't give a ten year old a gallon of gas and some matches and 
>> tell him to light the grill, and apparently some are not safe with a 
>> CD. I guess that's life :)
> 
> 
> Thank you Charlie.
> caver1


Well it is rather like politics and religion, since there IS no definite 
answer the debate can be endless.

I wouldn't get rich but wouldn't turn down $10 for every time I've fskd 
something up and wished it wasn't my fault. If all else fails read the 
instructions. I personally think that both the Windows and Ubuntu 
installers are as idiot proof as is necessary, there'll always be a 
better idiot than you can create a workaround for :)

I wasn't very happy when my install failed but there IS something about 
my particular system here that's causing it which I can isolate because 
I have the luxury of slide mounted drives. I "Could" have just said to 
hell with it but would rather try and at least isolate the problem even 
if I am not able to find a technical reason for it. I suspect it may be 
because GRUB is installed on a data drive but either way it is worth 
knowing about.