On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 17:24, Amir Tal wrote: > a thought regarding tommorow's event : > > i was thinking that maybe we should also try an additional installation > method for new users. > i am guessing that there will be people that will be afraid of data losses
It's now very late for this discussion, but if there are potential new users who are really worried about data loss, the safest route would be a distro running from the CD (Suse live-eval, DemoLinux, Knoppix etc.). Reset BIOS to boot from CD, reboot and - no risk. It'll run slowly, but it won't compromise existing partitions. But then, any distro running on top of windows will also run slowly, and is hardly a long-term solution for a genuine newbie. Of course, this isn't an *install*, and is perhaps inappropriate for an install party. But it is *safe*. [snip] > should we suggest it to users as an option ? -- David Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent using Evolution in Libranet Linux. ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
