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

[Alvin Thompson]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

unless, as i mentioned before, that's their only computer that can burn 
CDs. it's a major pain in the neck at that point, because now you have 
install some other OS (if you have one) just to burn a new CD.

also, what if someone were upgrading their system? now they're left with 
a computer in some hosed, possibly unusable, 'in-between' state. any way 
you slice it, it's a big headache.

-alvin