torios team mailing list archive

[George DiceGeorge <dicegeorge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The message I saw made me think that if i pressed [return] my hard drive 
would get wiped, so i aborted installation.
Now I hear that if i had gone further i'd have had a chance to make a new 
partition and install torios there.

[g]


-----Original Message----- 
From: Nio Wiklund
Sent: Wednesday, 07 January, 2015 17:50
To: smile4ever@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: George DiceGeorge ; torios@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Torios] ToriOS-alpha-rc2.iso testing

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
>  >
>  > --
>  > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios
>  > Post to     : torios@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios
>  > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>  >
>
> 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