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Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment potential

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Hi,

On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 09:18:23PM -0700, Jose R Rodriguez wrote:
>Sorry I missed, too, your detailed email ;-)

No need to be sorry about that. Things happen.

>On 2026-03-20 07:29, Marc Haber wrote:
>>Whenever I talk with people running mid-size to large numbers of 
>>Debian installations, people roll their eyes when one talks about 
>>the Installer, in particular its way to partition disks. I must 
>>admit that I am not partman's best friend either.
>
>A few years back there was an effort to introduce Growlight as a 
>Partman replacement. I even began to experiment by preliminary adding 
>reiser4/5 support to Growlight code at the time. Please see old 
>thread:
>< https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/09/msg00401.html >

How well would that be automatable?

>Yet, I do not know what happen to the project as it went silent. 
>Probably the developer of Growlight might be interested in working 
>with you on such an ambitious project[?!]

I do not plan to develop a new partitioner. I am intersted in small 
modifications to the installer that would allow more flexibility 
externally. I neither have the programming skills for a project that 
size nor do I have the time for that.

Greetings
Marc

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Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment potential Marc Haber <mh+debian-boot@zugschlus.de> - 2026-03-20 15:40 +0100
  Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Jose R Rodriguez <jose.r.r@metztli.com> - 2026-03-30 06:20 +0200
    Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Marc Haber <mh+debian-boot@zugschlus.de> - 2026-03-31 17:30 +0200
      Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Jose R Rodriguez <jose.r.r@metztli.com> - 2026-04-01 07:00 +0200
        Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Marc Haber <mh+debian-boot@zugschlus.de> - 2026-04-01 09:30 +0200
          Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2026-04-02 12:40 +0200
            Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Marc Haber <mh+debian-boot@zugschlus.de> - 2026-04-02 15:30 +0200
              Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2026-04-02 16:00 +0200
                Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Marc Haber <mh+debian-boot@zugschlus.de> - 2026-04-02 16:30 +0200
                Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2026-04-02 17:00 +0200

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