Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install

vailima vailima at icontech.com
Mon May 9 15:50:25 UTC 2005




With any degree of intelligent authority, how can you state that is is NOT true?

You weren't here when it happened .. I was 

.. and it DID happen.




>
>Subject: Re: Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install
>   From: ajtiM <ajtim at ctel.net>
>   Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 11:37:55 -0400
>     To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>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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