Re: new squeeze
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Scott Ferguson
<prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/9/13 Jes�s M. Navarro <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>:
>>> On Friday 10 September 2010 21:17:24 Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman
>>>>> Now if you consider it user error to give the default answers, when you
>>>>> actually want to save the current install, then your anwer is accurate.
>>>>
>>>> I do. It's a PEBKAC. With d-i and its Ubuntu implementation in its
>>>> alternate and mini installers, the default is to use the entire disk,
>>>
>>> I don't see that to exactly be a PEBKAC. �How it's having a default destroying
>>> your data to be considered a sane practice? default should be inoffensive or
>>> do nothing if at all possible.
>>
>> I guess that the assumption is that someone installing Debian knows
>> whether he/she wants to use the default of installing the entire disk
>> or not.
>
> I *know* that the *presumption* is that someone installing Debian has
> read the fine manual before attempting an install :-)
> Please don't try and correlate Ubuntu installs with Debian.
I'm not confused and I'm not the one suggesting that d-i to adopt
ubiquity's "much saner" (someone else's words not mine) defaults.
d-i's current default is just fine with me.
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