> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Scott Ferguson > <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 2010/9/13 Jes�s M. Navarro <jesus.nava...@undominio.net>: >>>> On Friday 10 September 2010 21:17:24 Tom H wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman >>>>>> Now if you consider it user error to give the default answers, when you >>>>>> actually want to save the current install, then your anwer is accurate. >>>>> I do. It's a PEBKAC. With d-i and its Ubuntu implementation in its >>>>> alternate and mini installers, the default is to use the entire disk, >>>> I don't see that to exactly be a PEBKAC. �How it's having a default >>>> destroying >>>> your data to be considered a sane practice? default should be inoffensive >>>> or >>>> do nothing if at all possible. >>> I guess that the assumption is that someone installing Debian knows >>> whether he/she wants to use the default of installing the entire disk >>> or not. >> I *know* that the *presumption* is that someone installing Debian has >> read the fine manual before attempting an install :-) >> Please don't try and correlate Ubuntu installs with Debian. > I'm not confused and I'm not the one suggesting that d-i to adopt > ubiquity's "much saner" (someone else's words not mine) defaults. > d-i's current default is just fine with me. > > Correcting your wording - not your opinion :-) Assume==guess Presume==based on smidgen of evidence (at least) Hand-holding installations have been discussed to death - the general consensus seems to be if you want hand-holding use one of the "less pure" Debians (Ubuntu et al). If you want choice use the Debian installer - it may wipe an already installed OS, it may refuse to boot if you insist on a XFS boot partition, but it won't happen if the install notes are read. Personally I'd like to see "expert" as the only install choice. If we wanted to do things the Ubuntu way we'd - be on the Ubuntu lists.
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