Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install

vailima vailima at icontech.com
Mon May 9 15:19:31 UTC 2005



It is TRUE ...

It did happen ...

Had Win98SE on the desktop and installed "WARTY", 

Used "automatic" set up of unused space on the hard drive

Left 3gb for Win98SE / balance for "WARTY"

Wiped out the hard drive.






>
>Subject: Re: Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install
>   From: Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
>   Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:52:24 +0100
>     To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:24:18AM -0400, vailima wrote:
>> I suggest this as "WARTY" UBUNTU will destroy/write over/delete/remove
>> ALL files currently on your hard drive. Unlike Mandrake, "WARTY"
>> UBUNTU will NOT reside with another operating system on the same hard
>> drive.
>
>This is not true. Please describe the actual problem you encountered,
>with details of the other operating systems in question, and what you
>did in the partitioning step of the installer.
>
>Cheers,
>
>-- 
>Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
>
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