why does the installer change the partition table?

[Thufir]

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?


I want the boot loader to be on sdb as sda will get repartitioned 
eventually.  



thanks,


Thufir