[ubuntu-in] Fwd: Warning with Ubuntu crap

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Venkatesh Nandakumar <
venkatesh88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg at cern.ch>
> >
> > To help friends with modem problems with Ubuntu 8.10, I installed from
> the
> > distribution CD (Live CD capable) onto an USB disk on key, on a Windows
> XP
> > machine.
> >
> > The bad surprise came when GRUB worked without the usual pause,
> installing
> > itself on the hard disk without notice and incidentally wiping off its
> > partition.
> >
> > The Windows disk is lost.
> >
> > Beware of CRAP and do not say that you have not been warned.
> >
>
>
> And this guy is a scientist at CERN?
>
> so do you know if there is a problem installing ubuntu onto a usb key
through windows
i haven't tried it  and maybe there is some problem with the process

ram
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