From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 Description of problem: We are talking about 'manual formatting' using Disk Druid. It looks like disk druid orders the partitions by 'decreasing size' with the first three partitions as 'primary partitions', except if you force some partitions to be 'primary'. This may or may not be what the user wants, so shouldn't there be a way to arrange the partitions in some particular order? E.g. I want a small partition at the very beginning of the disk (/boot). I could do this by forcing the partition to be 'primary' but I don't think that's the best way.
You can allocate partitions by cylinder limits and it will insert those first. The documentation should explain how to do this.