Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-02 21:50 (UTC-0400):

> I have never had ant great success at pre-partitioning a drive, the 
> installer never accepts what you so carefully lay out

This should not be. I *always* partition in advance, never have a problem with any
Debian installer using partitions as I specify. Maybe you should try again, but
before trying installation, after partitioning, show us output from:

	parted -l
and/or
	fdisk -l

to see if that's where your trouble lies.
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