On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 08:52 -0800, Jack Bates wrote: > How do I coax Debian-Installer into installing into a subdirectory of > an > existing file system? > > /dev/sda1 is an existing ext4 file system and I want to install into an > e.g. /stretch subdirectory of that file system.
This is not (AFAIK) something which d-i can do, and I don't think such an arrangement would be directly bootable by Linux either (you'd need some additional initramfs magic to boot with root in a subdirectory of the root device). If what you want is a chroot type thing then I think most people would lean towards using debootstrap. Ian.
