Re: DANGER!!! Problems with 10.04 installer (RAID devices *will* get corrupted)

On Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:11 AM, Alvin Thompson wrote:
On 04/21/2010 03:44 AM, Colin Law wrote:
Surely the moral is never to allow _any_ beta software anywhere near
any vital data, at least unless it is adequately backed up and you are
prepared to recover it if necessary. This is not specific to beta
versions of Ubuntu.

Surely the moral is that the ubuntu installer should have at least
basic, rudimentary safeguards when partitioning disks and writing data.
Such as not writing partition data unless the user explicitly tells it
to, and never writing directly to a partition which has a RAID
superblock. This is pretty basic stuff.


Yeah, stick with d-i, it ain't fancy but it won't trash your data!

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