I agree Colin, that it should be printed on sleeves and any included
supplementary documentation.  How many times have you gotten a copy of
Ubuntu from someone else that burned it?  (No printed sleeve.)  Viral
nature of Ubuntu installs would dictate some type of pop-up dialog
during installation or bring up a document (invoked when installer is
first loaded).  It doesn't need to be click-through (like a EULA) but it
should be prominent that there is some risk if Ubuntu is installed over
and not next to an existing Windows partition.  Having spent the past
two years answering posts on the forums, there are several cases of
users destroying Windows (on their Dad's machine, no less).

Anything done to reduce destroying Windows partitions will help because
as Ubuntu user base grows, so do support requests.

Whatever warnings that are given, they should not interfere with
automated installation, nor take any more time to perform the
installation.

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Installer does not inform user that it can setup a dual boot system with 
operating systems like Windows
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130463
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