on 5-3-2009 12:02 PM Beartooth spake the following:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:20:30 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: [...]
I like CentOS better than Debian also but, apparently, the new Ubuntu 9.04 works really well on netbooks.
For the record, I went there, got that, burned it to a medium, and started an install. It came up with some startlingly strong caveat, to the effect that "This will wipe your drive."
So it did warn you...
I took that to be so much more ubuntoid protecting me from myself, and went ahead, taking for granted that the installer would give me at least one choice which would preserve CentOS.
But it did warn you...
Ba-aa-aadd move. It meant what it said : never gave me any other choice of anything, but went ahead and, sure enough, completely trashed my CentOS install. After that, the machine ran UNR and only UNR, even with thumbsticks in it. I finally ended up running DBAN against it -- and am still looking for other, *NON*-ubuntoid distros ...
So if you walk up to a very large fellow with a t-shirt that says, "Touch me and I will punch you", do you still touch him thinking it is just a possible outcome?
I personally would take "This will wipe your drive" to mean that my drive will be wiped of everything, not just some things. That is enough caution for me if I have something I don't want to lose.