why does the installer change the partition table?

[Detlef Lechner]

Am Dienstag, den 30.12.2008, 10:49 +0000 schrieb Thufir:
> No matter what options I select, I get something like:
> 
> 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
> 

> msg/52e5cbd17f02d4d0?dmode=source> I would like to seek a few opinions 
> before proceeding.  

Please show the output of
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Detlef