Installation plays hardball
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 13:17:04 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:13 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Aldrich <jmaldrich at 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.
poc
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