Various pre-install queries from potential user

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:47:02AM +0800, John wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:39:20AM +0800, John wrote:
> >>atm it would surely be a Good Thing if Ubuntu autodetected an overwrite 
> >>of itself and defaulted to the same paritioning scheme:-)
> >
> >That's a convenient thing for Windows, because it needs to be reinstalled
> >from time to time, but why for Ubuntu?
> 
> I installed it twice yesterday on the same box, will probably do so 
> again today or tomorrow.

It would be an interesting gimmick for a few developers, I guess. I
think I can probably claim to install Ubuntu rather more often than most
people, though. :-)

With the current partitioner it's probably more work to change an
existing partitioning scheme than to set up a new one from scratch, so I
think that gimmick would pessimize for those doing a second install
shortly after the first to change partitioning scheme.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]