On Oct 18, 5:48 am, "Noozer" <dont.s...@me.here> wrote: 
> 
> 
>
> I just realized something...
>
> Say I want to create a single partition /stuff and put both /tmp and /var
> onto it? How do I handle this in the Debian installer?

You can't.  Unless, you use soft links like Angel did.

> Another example... I want a /userdata partition and on this partition I wa
nt
> /userdata/home   ... How do I tell the installer to mount home at
> /userdata/home ???

Easy way, you don't.  Leave space on partition where you want it to
be, and manually create partition and file system after installation
is done.  Then you add a line into /etc/fstab.

If you are going to change and experiment with partition sizes, please
have a look at LVM.  It makes life so much easier when you want to do
stuff like that.  You can change size on partitions without needing to
reboot the computer.  You can easy create and remove partition while
running.  You can easy make three disks look like one large partition,
and later divide it into many partitions.

Have a look at http://www.debian-administration.org/ where there is
some good instructions how this can be done.
(like http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/410)

Good luck

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