Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Mon May 9 21:09:37 UTC 2005


On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:24:18AM -0400, 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.

Troll!

/M

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