10.04.1 "partion not marked for formatting" during install

[Alan McKay]

Well it does not seem to matter because I went forward anyway and go
this error :

The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install
target, but was unable to do so.  The install cannot continue.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm trying to recover a system that had 10.04 on it - got a kernel
> panic and it will not boot.
>
> So I download the latest live CD and try to do a manual install over
> top of what is already the.
>
> /boot is a RAID1
> / is a RAID10 (4 partitions)
>
> I go into "Try Ubunutu", then from there install mdadm and start the
> RAID arrays.  I can see them at this point and all my data is there -
> no problem.
>
> But then I try to do the install (from the desktop of the live CD) and
> of course do not want it to format partitions.  It gives me this
> warning, which suggests to me that it is going to erase a bunch of
> stuff from my disks anyway!
>
> QUOTE:
> The file system on “/dev/md0” assigned to / has NOT been marked for
> formatting. Directories containing system files (/etc, /lib, /usr,
> /var, …) that already exits under any defined mountpoint will be
> deleted during the install.
> Please ensure that you have backed up any critical data before installing”
> ENDQUOTE:
>
> Is my data safe if I proceed?  Why in the heck would it want to do
> that?  What exactly is it going to do?
>
> thanks,
> -Alan
>
>
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