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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:55:33 +0000
From: "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
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On 21/12/06, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:

> The risk that the user might nuke the partitions containing Windows is
> always there regardless of what distro you use. You still make the same
> decisions, fdisk, cfdisk and gparted are still there. Whether you click
> here, click OK then say "oops..." or type "fdisk /dev/sda" <some stuff>
> then say "oops" you're still gonna say "oops" ....
>
This is the part where I point out (for the benefit of readers *other*
than Alan, probably) that the user, if he is going to have to
(re)install Windows, is at risk of nuking the partitions already
containing Windows/Linux/SkyOS/$MYFAVOS anyway. "Whether you click
here, click ok then say 'oops' or type 'fdisk c:' <some stuff> then
say 'oops' you're still gonna say 'oops'".

Last I heard, btw, Windows was still using a nasty
type-at-me-don't-click partitioner.

My =C2=A30.02

Jeff.

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