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Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto



Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> (2017-11-10):
> 1) get a list of disks
> 2) identify the disk used by the installer
> 3) exclude the disk found at #2

How do you do 2?

Last I touched this, nothing obvious appeared in d-i to know what the
installer was booted from. ISTR having suggested at the time that
bootloaders could set something to help d-i figure out where it booted
from, but I don't think anything happened in this area since then.

> 4) present modified list as target disks for installation
> 5) unless in expert mode, where a user could use one partition of a
> disk as the installation source and another partition as the
> installation target.  I'm not sure how important #5 is, but maybe some
> users want to be able to do this?


KiBi.

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