[Possible Spam]::Re: CD integrity checking (Re: Colony 3, Test report)

[Matt Zimmerman]

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