Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> writes: > considerable lengths to try and get him there. I have even been told that I > should be ashamed of myself for telling him to just grab the bull by the > horns and do it.
That is a misunderstanding. What I've been trying to say is that there's someone who's trying to actually do what we apparently always want people to do, i. e. read the documentation and really try to learn things and then ask good questions. In this case, the purpose of that seemed to be to get things done the right way, avoiding mistakes that can create difficulties and having to install again --- which can be more complicated than starting with a blank disk because you'll want to keep your data. That's something I found delightful, and I can understand when someone wants to know in advance what's supposed to happen when they do this or that. And our reaction to that is like "yuck, you're asking too many questions and we're getting tired of that so just try it out and make mistakes and end up installing again like we all did". There's something wrong with that, imho. It's just like: "What happens to the data on my /home partition when I run mkfs on it?" "Just try it and see what happens and if you don't like the result, just install again. What do you have to lose?" If I was Wally, I would disconnect the other disk before installing because otherwise, something could go wrong or I could make a mistake and lose what's on that disk. -- Debian testing iad96 brokenarch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87haprhlp6....@yun.yagibdah.de