partitioning

[Rashkae]

Thufir wrote:
> Rashkae <ubuntu <at> tigershaunt.com> writes:
> 
> 
> [...]
>>> sdb1         windows 2000 professional
>>> sdb3         /
>>> sdb4         /home
>>> sda          extra stuff
>>>
>>>
>>> does this seem reasonable?
>>>
>> Looks good to me..
>>
>> Although, if I were going to put the time into repartitioning / copying
>> hard drives, I would be sorely tempted at those really cheap > 200GB
>> drives going on sale all over the place.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> thanks for both replies.   I booted to the live cd and started running the GUI
> installer but was a bit confused.  I tried a few different options, but kept
> getting messages like this:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Language: English
>  Keyboard layout: USA
>  Name: piter
>  Login name: piter
>  Location: America/Vancouver
>  Migration Assistant:
>  Ubuntu 8.04.1 (8.04) (/dev/sda1):
>  brigitte: Mozilla Firefox
> 
> 
> If you continue, the changes listed below will be written to the disks.
> Otherwise, you will be able to make further changes manually.
> 
> WARNING: This will destroy all data on any partitions you have removed as
> well as on the partitions that are going to be formatted.
> 
> The partition tables of the following devices are changed:
>  SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda)
>  SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sdb)
> 
> The following partitions are going to be formatted:
>  partition #5 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) as swap
>  partition #5 of SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sdb) as swap
> 
> 
> 
> which concern me because I don't want to lose data on sda but don't want to back
> up (lotsa cd burning) at the moment.
> 
> I tried the manual approach, selected which sdb partitions I wanted effected,
> but keep getting that message that the partition table for sda has been changed.
>  If so, I didn't intentionally change it :(
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Thufir  (postponed installing)
> 
> 
> 

I'm sorry, this is a case I'm not willing to take up over e-mail.  I'm
sure lots of people will step in for me however, but I suggest you give
any advise a 'cooling off period' so other list members can point out
any glaring errors that might risk data loss.