why does the installer change the partition table?
Thufir
hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 20:15:06 UTC 2008
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:36:32 +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
>> 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?
Maybe your question explains why sda is being touched at all. The
bootloader on sda needs to be changed, perhaps?
I want to do a clean install onto the already partitioned sdb and leave
sda entirely alone. At a later point I'll back up sda (laborious) and
reformat it for extra storage.
Being a bit lazy, I don't want to back up the data now, it being the
holidays and so forth. However, I don't want to lose data through a
format or change in partition table for sda.
I suppose the question could be: what does the message about changing
the partition table for sda mean?
thanks,
Thufir
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