installer failed to complete with existing swap partition enabled

[Matthew Lenz]

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 7 1312 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1312 5228 31457280 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 5228 27798 181294219+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 5228 5489 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 5490 18237 102398278+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 18238 27798 76798701 b W95 FAT32

These were all existing partitions when installing 8.10 over 8.04. I selected manual partitioning and edited sda6 to set it to ext3, format and mount at /. Clicked continue and after it formatting sda6 it complained that the installer was unable to use sda5 as swap. I've been using these same parition's since before the 7.x releases so its definitely something new with the installer.

[Matthew Lenz (matthew-nocturnal)]

Few details I left out:

After the installer complained it took me back to the partition wizard. I selected manual again and I set the swap partition not to be used. I just configured the swap manually in the fstab once I got 8.10 installed.

[Matthew Lenz (matthew-nocturnal)]

This is still broken in 9.04. I'm the only person re-installing over an existing set of partitions including a swap who has had this experienced? If someone knows another bug of which this is a dupe please let me know or mark it as such. This is pretty ridiculous.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This was fixed years ago.