I just installed FC5

[Man-wai CHANG]

>> 1. Finally, booting the DVD with `linux xfs` could really install
>>    to XFS partitions.
> Huh?  This has worked since at least FC3.

The last time I tried it with FC4, it failed.

>> 2. The custom partition manager didn't allow me to create an
>>    extended partition. I needed to boot back into something
> That's not been my experience.  What specifically was wrong?

My drive had got 3 primary partitions already. I needed an extented 
partition to create 4 more individual partitions (/, /boot,/home,swap).

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