What I should have mentioned though is that this problem only occurred when I tried to install on a disk that already had partitions on it (including linux partitions of various kinds that I did not want to delete). I had no trouble installing a root partition and swap on an empty disk on another box recently using the same installer. I was able both to choose reiserfs as the file system and to specify the amount of swap space I wanted.
-- when partitioning disks manually, installer insists on reformatting to ext3 https://launchpad.net/bugs/62557 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
