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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-01-07 18:46, Smile4ever skrev:
> 
> 
> ---- Aan vr, 02 jan 2015 22:38:35 +0100 Nio Wiklund<nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> schreef ---- 
>  > Den 2015-01-02 22:18, George DiceGeorge skrev: 
>  > > OBI said: 
>  > > [ 
>  > > When you run this installer, a new operating system will be installed, 
>  > > AND 
>  > > the device will be formatted and 
>  > > ***** COMPLETELY OVERWRITTEN ******] 
>  > >  
>  > > so I aborted the install. 
>  > >  
>  > > But now youre saying that there will be an option to run gparted manually 
>  > > like ubuntus have  had for years... 
>  > >  
>  > > Good. 
>  > >  
>  > > Maybe I'll wait for the next version and try again, 
>  > > i want something that i can start using on all my pcs. 
>  > > And I want to help with torios user interface, 
>  > > not programming. 
>  > >  
>  > > [george] 
>  >  
>  > Hi George! 
>  >  
>  > Installing operating systems is always risky, and I think it is 
>  > important to tell people what is going to happen. If they are not very 
>  > careful and install to the correct drive or partition, there may be a 
>  > disaster. Too many people cry for help at the Ubuntu Forums because they 
>  > have overwritten their Windows and their not-yet-backed-up personal 
>  > documents. 
>  >  
>  > If you want to help us test ToriOS during this development phase, you 
>  > are very welcome. But if you want to wait for the next version, the beta 
>  > release, you are very welcome too :-) 
>  >  
>  > Best regards 
>  > Nio 
>  >  
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> 
> Hi Nio
> 
> What about this? I think this is more beginner friendly:
> "Please make a backup of important files before installing this operating system, because the device will be formatted and completely overwritten"
> 
> Kind regards,
> Geoffrey De Belie / Smile4ever
> 
> 

Hi Smile,

Thanks for the feed-back :-)

I have high-lighted your mail and will think about it for the next
version of mkusb and the OBI.

Best regards
Nio