Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2021-08-14 Thread nick black
[debian-derivatives dropped from cc] [93sam, pabs added to cc] [0] nick black left as an exercise for the reader: > Christian PERRIER left as an exercise for the reader: > > Quoting nick black (nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com): > > > As said, you can find a growlight udeb in the SprezzOS repositories,

Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-07 Thread nick black
Christian PERRIER left as an exercise for the reader: I'd like to followup on your suggestion as it seems well thought and prepared and not just one idea thrown in the wild as I was initially thinking (sorry for this). Thanks for your kind words, christian! i'm still wondering what people

Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting nick black (nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com): As said, you can find a growlight udeb in the SprezzOS repositories, where it is actively used in our d-i-derived installer: It's quite likely that the first step is then to have growlight in main Debian, isn't it? signature.asc

Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-07 Thread nick black
Christian PERRIER left as an exercise for the reader: Quoting nick black (nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com): As said, you can find a growlight udeb in the SprezzOS repositories, where it is actively used in our d-i-derived installer: It's quite likely that the first step is then to have

Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-07 Thread nick black
Karl Goetz left as an exercise for the reader: How will this go for ports, non x86 and non linux? non-x86: there's no x86-specific code in growlight. if all the libraries are available, everything should be fine. will need to support setting up bootloaders on those architectures if they

rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-06 Thread nick black
Hello! Last summer, I was hoping to add ZFS support to the Debian installer. After playing around with partman a week or two, I ended up developing an entirely new application, growlight [0]. It is currently used in the SprezzOS installer [1], and has been used by a small, ZoL-intensive user base

Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting nick black (nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com): Hello! Last summer, I was hoping to add ZFS support to the Debian installer. After playing around with partman a week or two, I ended up developing an entirely new application, growlight [0]. It is currently used in the SprezzOS installer