Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 06:22:57PM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
> : > The installer DOES note that it will completely repartition your drives,
> : > thus killing whatever was already there. Shame on you for not using the
> : > "Custom" option, which lets you choose what to do with your drives.
> :
> : That is no excuse for the installation to blindly remove partitions without
> : double-checking with the user that it is OK to destroy that drive.
>
> There's nothing "blind" about it. It tells you plain as day. You didn't
> pay enough attention, and you killed your data. You have nobody to blame
> but yourself. It happens to everyone once. This is your turn. Next time,
> you will be more careful.
>
> : RedHat's installation has to take a lot of responsibility in this fiasco.
>
> Maybe they could put in a "Hey, did you really read what I just said? I'm
> about to kill all of your data. You sure about this?" message, but that
> smacks of Microsoft's "Are you sure? Are you really sure? Really and
> truly? Sure you mean it?".
I'd like to put a slightly different spin on this.
A lot of people on this list, myself included, have been doing this for
a while. Whe I installed RH6.1, I burned CD's of my old system, then
use a find command to copy all files <1MB (as a cheap filter for
configuration files) to another disk, just in case I couldn't get the
SCSI or cdrom working right away.
A common thread on mailing lists and newsgroups like this is "Why aren't
more people using linux instead of windows, and what can we do to change
that?" Well, here's a prime example. Yes, there was a message on some
part of the screen. Was it enough? I didn't see the message so I don't
know if the average less-experienced user would have noticed. I hate
"Are you sure?" messages, but if a program is going to wipe out all
filesystems, I would expect the message saying so to be pretty
prominent, with directions on how tell it to work differently.
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