Strange behaviour from Xenial installer

[Nils Kassube]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> I am close to giving up. For whatever reason the upgrade route via
> 15.04 and so on always crashes. Decided to fresh 16.04.1 install.
> 
> I have separate / and /home partitions, both ext4. Here comes the
> problem: the installer insist that my /home is ext2 and whatever I set
> it to wants to format it. No thank you...

I would install without the separate /home partition. Then there is a 
/home in the / partition (which is needed anyway as a mount point). 
After the install is completed you could then write your own fstab entry 
for the separate /home partition.


Nils