Seeing the same here on edgy, after removing a large vfat partition and making a small ext3 partition (hda5) + a small vfat (hda7), using the current debian-installer.
I get a garbage disk label, probably because it looks for a vfat label on the ext3 partition. See /dev/hda5 in the attached lshal output. $ sudo blkid|grep hda5 /dev/hda5: LABEL="etch" UUID="736af349-2720-4976-b181-43959ca05b03" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" ** Attachment added: "lshal output for hda5,6,7" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4171468/lshal.txt -- The filesystem type of a volume is identified incorrectly. https://launchpad.net/bugs/36846 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs