On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2010/9/13 Jes�s M. Navarro <jesus.nava...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinn4cnay_q-f+j=+_pa1rsz25wjvkihx4xfw...@mail.gmail.com