I installed it based on hard drive letters/numbers I got from Slackware. And it only repartitioned my first drive, and formatted the last. Also: How do I subscribe?
On Sep 10, 2011 4:51 PM, "Andreas Bombe" <
aeb@debian.org> wrote:
> [Cc'ing you, since I assume you are not subscribed to the mailing list]
>
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 07:45:57AM -0600, Old Man wrote:
>> Results:
>>
>> When I booted into /dev/sda, I got what was left of the slackware
>> installation that was originally there. I booted into /dev/sdb and did
>> some looking. sda's file system was untouched, but the partitions were
>> reversed (originally it was partition-swap, debian formatted it
>> swap-partition).
>
> This seems fishy. If the disk really was repartitioned, there should be
> nothing left of the file system that was there before.
>
> How did you choose the disk to install to in order to be sure that you
> selected the correct one? By looking at the previous partitioning, the
> disk size, something else?
>
> --
> Andreas Bombe