Ife Wright (HE12025-03-28): > I want to install debian but I don't understand why I have to erase > everything on my hard disk to do it,I just want to install without erasing > my hard disk
You do not need to erase anything, the installation process will overwrite whatever it needs. That includes the root data structures of most anything that could already been there, so the rest, the data that will not have been overwritten, will be mostly unusable without a lot of effort. Regards, -- Nicolas George
