Fedora Core 6 Partition bias

Trying to manually partition the drive in FC6 revealed a certain stubbornness with regard to allocating space.
The existing drive already had three primary partitions - 2 NTFS and one EXT3 containing Opensuse. An Extended drive with a single logical drive contained the swap. I wanted to create another logical drive and allocate space for FC6.
The partition tool for some reason does not allow the user to select whether the partition is to be extended or primary.
More annoyingly, it would not allow the swap partition to be the first logical drive in the Extended partition. Since Opensuse had already mapped sda5 as the swap partition, it was paramount that sda5 be reserved. The previous ordeal with a renamed swap partition causing Mandriva 2007 to not boot, necessitating a rewrite of the fstab file by using Centos live CD, was still fresh. But, the partition tool, stubbornly, would allocate sda5 for the ext2 partition meant for FC, even if it was created after the swap partition. So if I create the swap partition first, it would be given the sda5 name. Then on creating the FC6 partition, the FC6 partition would automatically usurp the sda5 name, and push the swap partition down the extended drive and allocate sda6.
I gave up my attempts to rectify the situation, and decided to pre-partition the drive before installing FC6.
The FC6 DVD was non live and hence needed installation before use.