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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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> 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*.

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.

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.