`over'

[Berry Kercheval kerch@parc.xerox.com]

>>>dhog@plan9.cs.su.oz.au said:
 > You make it seem like everything is riding on the interpretation of the
 > one phrase "install over", but the whole paragraph warns the user in
 > 3 different ways that there is a problem if they have more than one
 > partition.  I would consider it much more likely that our friend who
 > lost his linux partition didn't read the errata list at all, rather than read
 > it and misinterpretted it in the way that you suggest.

Furthermore, I (and I suspect a lot of us) refuse to have any sympathy 
for anyone who does a major installation of a new operating system without 
doing a backup first.

I can't count how many times I've read that you should backup often, and 
always before doing anything major.  Get a clue guys: *THIS IS WHY*.
Unexpected problems have a way of biting you when you least expect it.

Remember: backups will get you through times of no disks better than disks 
will get you through times of no backups.

Apologies to the 99% of the members of this mailing list who 
already *know* this stuff.

  --berry

Berry Kercheval :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center