On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 00:49 -0800, Garrick Sitongia wrote:
I just installed Fedora for the first time on my Windows/Linux dual
boot
system. The Fedora installer gave me the option of installing over the
present linux installation on the disk, an old Mandriva version. I
assumed this meant the operating system partition. There were 2 other
unrelated ext3 partitions for photo archives and e-mail backup. After
booting into Fedora I discovered that the Fedora installer wiped every
linux partition without confirmation or consent. I have installed other
versions of Linux and I have always been given a choice. Your installer
should indicate that ALL linux type file systems will be wiped, in
addition to the operating system file system.
Garrick
In the installation process after you say you want to install Fedora
there is an option to manually configure the partitions.(manually is not
in the option but that is the idea) A GUI opens which allows you to
decide to format or not to format the partition and to decide where it
will be mounted.
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