From: Vasiliev Michael (mycroft_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 04 Jan 2005 - 18:11:11 IST
On Monday 03 January 2005 19:29, Aviram Jenik wrote:
> On Monday 03 January 2005 17:48, Vasiliev Michael wrote:
> > On Monday 03 January 2005 12:06, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > [...] how an installation of Windows XP caused his Linux partition
> > > to be formatted.
> >
> > Not very surprising, it is a known issue with just about every Windows.
> > My statistics say that Linux bootloaders tend to trash windows partitions
> > as well, in unexperienced hands ("install lilo into boot sector of
> > /dev/hda1? [y/n] y").
>
> Bootloaders don't trash partitions, they change the bootsector.
That's what we expect them to do. If you insist on that line of thought,
programs by themselves never destroy valuable data, users do.
> Changing the boot sector is one thing (and it actually makes sense, you can
> use the Linux bootloader to boot into Windows). But it is *far* from
> similar to formatting the other OS's partition and destroying the data on
> it. There's absolutely no justification for that except buggy code.
The safety of the data was never guaranteed. I am not trying to play the
satan's advocate here, and IANAL, but if you decide to agree to MS EULA, then
you agree to accept the fact that you can't blame Microsoft for any damage
caused by running the aformentioned OS. Your expectations are something else.
Moreover, the author knew that he is installing a more or less buggy OS, that
does not recognise/ignore Linux partitions, still he expects his data to stay
intact. A rather naive approach, IMO.
-- Sincerely Yours, Vasiliev Michael NP: XMMS is not loaded. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il
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