why does the installer change the partition table?

[Koh Choon Lin]

> 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 :(

Are you trying to install the boot loader in sda and the rest of the
system on sdb?


Koh Choon Lin