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Article #97Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive
From: dennis
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:06
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:06
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"caver1" <caver@inthemud.com> wrote in message news:eu2QUSEFIHA.5752@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > 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. You have not read what I wrote. 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. 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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Subject: Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive
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