Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: > But maybe an alternative? I find the partitioning step one of the most > error-prone and hard-to-use parts of non-trivial Debian installations.
so overall, i've got to say the feedback i heard here was a lot more positive than i was expecting, though there was a bit less than i had hoped for. but perhaps something that can be touched would see more interest? given that no one seemed to reject the idea out of hand, i'm going to go ahead and rebase my work from 2012 (or more likely look at it once and redo it) in a Salsa fork of d-i, and make some installation media available. forgive me for likely only having x86 available at first. i'll try to have this done within a week or so, and put it up on my server. people can then give it a whirl. it's hard to see how exactly i proceed from that point, save in a reactive fashion (not complaining, just saying). but we'll see what happens when an ISO is available! note that there would still be some questions where i'd need input from Project members (as noted in my Debconf [0] presentation), particularly regarding translation (even if i can lift significant portions from partman, i'd need it looked over) and facilitating accessibility technology. --nick [0] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/images/b/b9/Parting_ways_with_partman.pdf -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.
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