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. >> >> It's here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook > > 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090504/e62f727b/attachment-0005.sig>