31 Dec
2009
31 Dec
'09
7:17 a.m.
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:13 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
"John" == John Aldrich jmaldrich@yahoo.com writes:
John> As I said, you need to choose to use a custom partition John> scheme, otherwise, Fedora will wipe every linux partition as John> happened to you. Granted, it's not obvious, but if you've John> been playing with linux for more than a couple John> distributions, I'd think you'd already have some notion of John> this by now.I've been using Fedora since its inception, and it wasn't obvious to me at all. I didn't actually trip up over it, as I was treading very carefully, but I must say I have plenty of sympathy for the OP.
Agreed. The exact consequences of each choice need to be explained much more explicitly, including a specific warning of when the next step will be irreversible.
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