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Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment potential

From	Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject	Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment potential
Date	2026-04-02 17:00 +0200
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On 02/04/2026 at 16:22, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 03:52:42PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> The installer itself does not need swap, but if swap is created for 
>> the target system then some installer components may need it to be 
>> activated in order to properly configure the target system. For 
>> example base-installer/bootstrap-base gets active swaps from /proc/ 
>> swaps to configure the resume device for the initramfs.
> 
> /proc/swaps does only contain the headings if no swap is configured. 
> base-installer/bootstrap-base should not try to configure resume in that 
> case

It sets resume=none if no swap is active.
I'm just warning that IF you created a swap during partitioning AND want 
to use hibernation, then the swap should be activated during the 
installation.

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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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