Edgy on machine with lots of partitions

[Glenn Holmer]

I've a test machine with lots of partitions (about a dozen operating 
systems installed), so naturally I select "Manually edit partition 
table" during install.  I want to overwrite an old 5.10 install, so I 
don't change anything on the "Prepare Partitions" screen (which has 
detected everything correctly).  Now I click "Forward", and he proposes 
to mount every single partition at /media/whatever.  Yuck.  So I 
manually deselect everything but a small boot partition on disk 1, a 
swap partition on the same disk, and a root partition on the second 
disk.  The boot partition was ext2, and I want to re-format it the same 
way.  The root partition was XFS, and I want to re-format that the same 
way as well.  But I don't see any option for filesystem type, and when 
I click "Forward", he tells me "XFS may not be used on the filesystem 
containing /boot. Either use a different filesystem for / or create a 
non-XFS filesystem for /boot."  I never told him I wanted to do that, 
and the target partition for /boot is formatted ext2.

Even if I drop back to the console, reformat these two partitions by 
hand, and then go back to the installer and deselect "Reformat?", I get 
the same error.

Is there a way out of this?  

-- 
Glenn Holmer (Q-Link: ShadowM)
http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/c64.html