I assure you that sda was repartitioned, and that sdc was formatted.
On Sep 10, 2011 6:12 PM, "Andreas Bombe" <
aeb@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 05:00:49PM -0600, Old Man wrote:
>> I installed it based on hard drive letters/numbers I got from Slackware.
>
> I suspect that is the problem. If you just chose sda because that is the
> device you wanted under Slackware then you probably just chose the wrong
> disk. Those /dev/sdX devices are lettered in the order that they are
> registered by the drivers, and that depends on a lot of factors.
>
> You can not expect the Debian default kernel used by the installer to
> give disks the same letters as the kernel you are using on Slackware. In
> your case, if the IDE driver gets initialized before the SATA driver,
> your dev Slackware disk gets sda.
>
>> And it only repartitioned my first drive, and formatted the last.
>
> I still think you are mistaken about the repartitioning of the first
> drive. If that were the case the filesystems there should be destroyed,
> but you report that you can still see the broken Slackware install
> afterwards.
>
>> Also: How do I subscribe?
>
> You could go to
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/ and subscribe
> there, although this list is mostly about developing the Debian
> installer and probably not that interesting to the average user.
>
> --
> Andreas Bombe