On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 19:35 +1300, Bruce Kingsbury wrote: 
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:37 +1300, Ian McDonald wrote:
> On 10/19/07, Simon Green <simon@simongreen.net> wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > The Ubuntu team is proud to announce version 7.10 of the Ubuntu family of
> > distributions.
> 
> I'm installing this at present. As a word of warning to others - check
> what it defaults to - even though I had NTFS on my hard disc it's
> default install was to install on WHOLE hard disk and erase all
> partitions. Ubuntu hasn't done this to me previously, so watch out and
> don't just click next, next, next....

I would consider that a very serious BUG which is going to lead to many
more 'linux ate my hard-drive' horror stories. Any idea why they changed
the default?

Agreed...
As much as I joked about the situation (re. my previous posting on this topic), it's not a good thing to happen, even if it happens every other time..