On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 11:34:11AM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote:
> On Sun Oct 24 1999 at 12:03, Tom Diehl wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Chuck Mead wrote:
> >
> > > <extremely painful history deleted>
> > >
> > > As the Red Hat folks are very kind and patient people they
> > > probably won't do this but I just cannot help myself. (Plz note
> > > that I have been in your shoes, but not recently.... ~~~~~sigh!).
> >
> > < Lots of good stuff deleted>
> >
> > > We *WERE* warned... it's in the book! (fortunately I did not lose
> > > the corporate database, just my entire Inbox). ~~~~~~~sigh!
>
> Putting the warnings there is just not enough. It needs to be in the
> installer itself with a big flashing WARNING page that clearly tells
> the user what is about to happen and if they really want to go ahead
> and let it be done.
Perhaps this is changed with the new boot images. I did the install
via anaconda today, and there was a warning in BIG letters -- 'you will
lose data with blah, blah ....'
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