Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install

ajtiM ajtim at ctel.net
Mon May 9 15:37:55 UTC 2005


On Monday 09 May 2005 10:24, vailima wrote:
> If I may suggest ....
>
> BEFORE ... PRIOR TO ... installing UBUNTU onto your main (or only)
> microcomputer, do yourself a favor and either;
>
> (1) Purchase a Card Reader with the appropriate number of Memory Cards as
> may be needed to store all your valuable data files or
>
> (2) purchase a new and large enough hard drive with the associated cables
> (see eBay) with which you can attach this new hard drive to your present
> computer,
>
> .. then down load and store all files and associated data which are of
> value to you.
>
> 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.
>
> I found this out the hard way ... only I had and have backup files and data
> stored on other microcomputers which I own.

This is NOT TRUE. I am not an expert but i installed Ubuntu 5.04 on my 
brother's computer with one partition and Windows XP on without problem. I 
manually partitioned hard disk and he didn't lost any file

Mitja




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