2008/12/22 Ramnarayan. K <[email protected]>: > what do you think > > ram > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jacques Goldberg <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:42 PM > Subject: Warning with Ubuntu crap > To: Linmodems <[email protected]> > > > Dear friends, > I know that this is off-list because the relation to modems is weak. > > To help friends with modem problems with Ubuntu 8.10, I installed from the > distribution CD (Live CD capable) onto an USB disk on key, on a Windows XP > machine. > I went through manual partitioning of the USB disk. > I paid very great attention to each step. > I saw the message saying that partitions marked for formatting would be > erased (all of them were on the USB disk on key). I double checked that the > process would not involve anything with my independent hard disk. > > The bad surprise came when GRUB worked without the usual pause, installing > itself on the hard disk without notice and incidentally wiping off its > partition. > > The Windows disk is lost. > > Beware of CRAP and do not say that you have not been warned. > > I will not start a thread with that. > > Jacques >
And this guy is a scientist at CERN? Venkatesh -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
