On Sunday 20 March 2016 09:34:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 20 March 2016 04:54:20 Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:21:58 +0000 > > > > Lisi Reisz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday 18 March 2016 20:49:55 David Wright wrote: > > > > It's far more likely that you forgot to format the partition, if > > > > that's indeed what you wanted to do. > > > > > > No. I checked and double checked that the partitions on the disk > > > which I wanted to use for installation were all marked with the F > > > for format, and that nothing on the disk it had been told to leave > > > alone had an F. It kept wanting to format the spare disk's swap, > > > which I did not want. > > > > Why not? You wanted to carry over the swap created by a previous > > installation? > > Doing that, leaving a potentially dirty swap for a new install? No > sensible reason to do so, format that puppy.
Am I the only person on this list who has ever wanted to install on one disk and leave another alone for some reason? Surely not!! I wanted to install on sda and leave sdb alone. So I told it not to use sdb. Not to format sdb. Not to touch sdb. Why? Because I didn't want sdb touched. I was not leaving a potentially dirty swap for a new install. I was telling the new install not to use the second disk. Sheesh. When I could see I would just have disconnected sdb. It would then have been left alone. OK. I regard that as a sensible reason. Lisi
