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Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment potential

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From	Marc Haber <mh+debian-boot@zugschlus.de>
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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, log that fact and continue. partman itself is loud enough if you 
don't configure swap.

I think that I'll probably discover other things that should be changed. 
Maybe I'll find time over easter to pursue that.

Greetings
Marc

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      Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Jose R Rodriguez <jose.r.r@metztli.com> - 2026-04-01 07:00 +0200
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            Re: Feedback from bigger installations - installer improvment  potential Marc Haber <mh+debian-boot@zugschlus.de> - 2026-04-02 15:30 +0200
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