Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install

vailima vailima at icontech.com
Mon May 9 17:50:51 UTC 2005



It happened ... 

.. the data may not have been fully/if at all deleted but it was made unusable.




>
>Subject: Re: Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install
>   From: Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org>
>   Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:04:40 -0400
>     To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:50:25AM -0400, vailima wrote:
>> 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.
>
>It's just hard to believe, is all. It's very rare for any
>software package to delete all the data on your hard drive
>without prompting you first. I've installed Debian,
>Mandrake, and Ubuntu dozens of times, quite often on
>machines with pre-existing data, and never has it deleted
>data without asking. This is just not something that any
>competent programmer would do.
>
>We're not trying to make you feel bad (at least, not most of
>us); we're just noting our own experiences.
>
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