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Is there any way to keep the Sarge installer from messing up my HD?
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Yes, there is. In the partition section of Debian-Installer it shows a small image like a skull and crossbones for each partition that it plans to modify. Before you give Debian-Installer the permission to modify your hard drive, make sure that only those partitions which you actually want to be modified are marked with such skull & crossbones image.
Of course, if you've already messed up your hard drive geometry with some unreliable partitioning program BEFORE you install Debian, then troubles are to be expected. Especially *BSDs are known to create problems with multiboot setups. (Try a Google search for "FreeBSD geometry bug".)