I just installed FC5

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 > > Huh?  This has worked since at least FC3.
 > The last time I tried it with FC4, it failed.

When I tried "linux xfs" in FC4, it installed, but after booting, the 
xfs partition couldn't be found.

>> My drive had got 3 primary partitions already. I needed an extented 
>> partition to create 4 more individual partitions (/, /boot,/home,swap).
> That didn't answer my question.

You can have at most 4 primary partitions.

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