On 22-Oct-99 Jeremy Katz wrote:
> <soapbox>
> Ummm... it says that they're all going to be deleted. Listen to it.
> Don't think that you are smarter than it. It tells you exactly what it
> is going to do, so don't bitch when it does it.
> </soapbox>
> Jeremy
Haha.
If I'd posted last week when it happened you would have seen bitching :)
I'll sum it up for you.
I was suggesting that saying "previous linux installations will be
deleted" is inadequate, given the consequences. Would a few extra words
saying "this includes all linux data and swap partitions on all drives"
be too much to ask? I don't mean in the book, I mean on the menu
where it counts and where there was plenty of room for it....
Or even an subsequent panel, listing what will go, and ask for a confirm.
Within minutes someone posted here, and two others have emailed me.
Surely for the sake of typing an extra sentence (that would have stopped
this happening to me and others) this would make RedHat a better product??
Is this a devel list?
For the six years I've used linux I've never been in the
"Its perfect, only advocate it, never abuse it" group, or even the
"easier and safer installation is for wusses" group, but they do exist.
Now to the separate point of the actual logic of the auto-partitioning.
Let's assume that I _did_ want everything deleted on all drives.
"Don't think that you are smarter than it".. ke?
I did the opposite, I assumed it would do something logical. :)
Does it say in the book that it will have brain failure
when the partition table is already full? Which results in 580 meg
of my harddrive being permanently wasted space? Just so that
I can have 74 Meg of swap space, when I had 128 Meg in a more efficient
location on my second master drive (which it deletes)???
Now I make these points in that hope that RH will be safer next time
and less people will be burnt by it. I happen to know a little bit
about part tables and I got back all partitions including the
2 gig partition that had its first 24 meg formatted. I'm not sure
everyone is friendly with fdisk and e2fsck, and so I would hope RH would
add that sentence, even if just for the obviously inane few, like me.
Cheers :) Rod May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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