Stephen,
that is one of the weird things. I went back to mac os and deleted the
partitions hoping that maybe the installer would rather create them
itself. When i look at /proc/partitions now (after rebooting and getting
the installer going again) it shows all the partitions including the
ones I removed.
it seems to get hung up on partitions.
I was wondering if this could be a similar problem to the Q700 2 drive
problem? While trying to install on a Q700 I had to add a line
(mac53c9x=1,0) to fix that problem. Is there something similar maybe
going on?