Another partitioning question

[John]

Hi All,

I know that I cannot have more than fifteen partitions on any one device, but 
does anyone else have a problem with trying to use the installer and over ten 
partitions?

With two hard drives, the eleventh partition to format (so ten plus a couple 
of swaps is OK) kills the installation no matter which order or combination I 
start with.

/dev/sda1       /       ext3
/dev/sda2       none    swap
/dev/sda3       /home   ext3
/dev/sda5       /var    ext3
/dev/sda6       /tmp    ext3
/dev/sda7       /ain    ext3
/dev/sda8       /everest        ext3
/dev/sda9       /k2     ext3
/dev/sda10      /kang   ext3
/dev/sdb1       /lhotse ext3
/dev/sdb2       none    swap
/dev/sdb3       /makalu ext3

As soon as I try to add in /dev/sdb5 /chooyu as ext3 if crashes the install.

Regards
John