question with rekickstarting a server and selective formatting the partitions

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Using Fedora Core 1, can you rekickstart a server with the same partition table but leave the last partition unformatted and avoid specifying the specific partitions?

Example (original install):
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100
part swap --size 512
part / --fstype ext3 --size 5000
part /data --fstype exxt3 --size 1 --grow

Example2 (this works, but do I have to specify the partitions?):
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --onpart hda1
part swap --size 512 --onpart hda3
part / --fstype ext3 --size 5000 --onpart hda2
part /data --fstype exxt3 --size 1 --grow --onpart hda5 --noformat

Example3 (this doesn't work for me):
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100
part swap --size 512
part / --fstype ext3 --size 5000
part /data --fstype exxt3 --size 1 --grow --noformat

When I try Example3 when rekickstarting I get:
Could not allocate requested partitions:
Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions.
Press 'OK' to reboot your system.

I'd like to be able to avoid specifying the "hda1" or "hda2" etc... Is that possible? (I was not able to get it to work for me without the hda1, hda2, hda3, etc...)

Jeff

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