Summary: | Warning for installing on existing windows system | ||
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Product: | [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org | Reporter: | David Strozzi <david.strozzi> |
Component: | Installation Handbook | Assignee: | Docs Team <docs-team> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
David Strozzi
2006-03-02 22:33:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #0) > So, I beg of you, please, somewhere at the top of the gentoo installation > handbook, put a big warning about installing onto existing windows systems. If > there's a page of advice on this, that would be magnificent. Maybe there's > even a page already somewhere in the gentoo docs, I dunno, I'm just at the end > of my leash. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#dualboot Boot loader configurations for dual boot setup are already explained in our Handbooks. > Please, please please do something to warn people in the install docs! Once > I'm done pouting maybe I'll even write some documentation. Just put up a big > flashing thing saying "IF YOU GOT WIN ON THIS SYSTEM YOU BETTER FUCKING READ > THIS PAGE OR YOU'RE GOING TO FUCK YOUR SYSTEM." Ok, sorry for the cussing but > it's late... No amount of red flashing text written in BIG CAPS will save people who actually don't read the document in question. > I just need a page that treats me like a 2 year old and tells me how to > troubleshoot this. I can't boot to the win partition. I can't even mount it. Sorry, but "I can't boot" is not an error message. You should try to ask on gentoo-user mailing list, forums or other places like that, Bugzilla isn't a peoper place for support questions. > I know the blame for this lies with microsoft and their bullying tactics. But > we have to take that as a given. Nope, the reason are users not reading the documentation and complaining when stuff doesn't work as they expect. WKR, -jkt |