SOLVED: Installer wants to format /home partition

I want to install PCLinuxOS Debian Plasma edition on a spare partition, but with a shared /home partition. The problem is that as soon as I assign a partition as /home, the installer tells me that it will be formatted, so I have to back out at that point. Only the root / partition should be formatted. Not the /home partition. One of the purposes of having a separate /home partition is so that you can re-install your system but keep your personal settings, so it's important that the partition you declare as /home is not formatted — unless you ask for it to be (i.e., a first install).

If I install without declaring my home partition as /home, can I log into a desktop as root to sort everything out? If not, it will be difficult to move everything over.

Another point: Suppose a new user installs with / and /home, then after a while they want to re-install, their settings will be destroyed. There should be a facility to declare /home at the time of installation but not format it. Every other distro I've ever tried does this, including the "normal" PCLinuxOS.

It is a dangerous bug. That can avoid when adding /home partition after installation by editing /etc/fstab file and then creating new $HOME directory to the new  /home partition. Also privileges must change from root to user

All OK now. I downloaded a later version and now it seems to work correctly. I was able to install PCLinuxOS Debian Plasma without erasing my /home partition. Using /usr/sbin/adduser I was able to create an account for myself with UID=1000 and GID=1000, which I think is important because I still want to access to data used by the other Linuxes on my hard drive. Now I have that basic setup as I like it, I can spend some time with it over the coming days.