On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 12 November 2010 09:22, Dianne Reuby <pramc...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:51 +0000, alan c wrote: >>> I got burned by a nasty bug in the live CD of 10.10 which has the >>> effect of wiping your whole hard drive if you should be so unlucky to >>> choose a particular install option relating to choosing a *partition* >>> (not the whole drive!). >>> >>> Seen from a Developers point of view this 'frozen' bug is hardly >>> relevant. >> >> Good job they aren't giving them out to friends then. I was lucky - >> because I've run from LiveCD often, I thought it was taking much too >> long to start the live demo, and cancelled. Then I got the message >> saying that the install hadn't finished! > > I do not think there is any suggestion that just booting off the live > CD will trash the disk. It is a particular sequence after starting > installation that can go wrong.
Yes, but *what* particular sequence? Nobody has yet spelled it out, AFAICS. I'd like to know so I can avoid it! -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/