[Possible Spam]::Re: CD integrity checking (Re: Colony 3,
Test report)
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 29 18:58:51 CDT 2005
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:44:21PM -0400, Alvin Thompson wrote:
> ok, i'm breaking my promise to leave this one alone. :/
>
> the serious problem with this approach is that almost certainly the
> install would have already formatted/modified your hard drive by this
> point. this makes this option virtually worthless and actually
> *detracts* from an already negative user experience. if you tell a user
> after the fact that the reason their computer is now a doorstop is
> because the CD is bad, users will invariably wonder, "why the hell
> didn't you tell me this *before* you formatted my hard drive?" and they
> would be right.
I don't agree. If the user chooses to erase the contents of their disk and
install Ubuntu, obviously they didn't have anything on the disk which they
wanted to keep, and trying again with a good CD is not a big deal. If they
chose to resize, they haven't lost anything.
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- mdz
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