On 08/11/2018 01:56 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > Why I care at all: In the past, I used to test the Debian installer on > my main computer as it was the only one with up to date hardware, and I > had on it my working OS and a spare installation, and one or two DI > test installations. I found it quite annoying that after each test > the UUID of the swap changed, so I stopped testing DI.
What's wrong with using a virtual machine for that? Why test d-i on real hardware? On a VM, you'd just throw away the image afterwards. > BTW the 5 people in the world having more than one installation on the > same machine presumably know well how to avoid the potential problems of > shared swap. That's fine. But software has to adjust for the needs of 99.99% of its users and not to 5 people who have an exotic usecase. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
