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Re: Boot floppies and partition formatting



On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 03:46:34PM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> I heard a story that one my friend converted from Slackware to Debian.
> When he answered questions of the installation program, his Enter key
> remained pressed once after releasing it and autorepeat answered "yes"
> to all the questions.  My friend has finished with all data on his disk
> erased, because his Linux partition got formatted.  He became a Red Hat
> user. :-)
> 
> Maybe installation program should be more safe with respect to such a
> curious hardware failures?

Good point. I will make "no" the default for "destructive" answers.

	Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es


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