I have to say that I was more that a bit surprised, if not to say dismayed when I booted a system with CentOS 5 installed to test a kickstart CD in interactive mode, took it to the custom partitioning screen, then rebooted without saving anything only to come up with a grub prompt, and the disk's partition table wiped. The ks.cfg file did say to wipe the disk when installing, but I would expect that it wouldn't do this in interactive mode until one told it to start the installation.
I have been installing Linux systems for well over a decade, starting with Caldera Network Desktop 1.0, all versions of Caldera through 2001, and SuSE from 8.1 through SLES10, and never have I seen an installation procedure that would write to anything on the hard drive without asking first.
This certainly violates the Principle of Least Surprise.
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