On Sat, 06 May 2017, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net> wrote: ... > Given that a machine intended to run ZFS is likely to be provisioned > with >2GB of RAM ... debian-installer is effectively an embedded OS for the purpose of installing Debian -- trying to squeeze the ability to build ZFS into that is a mistake IMO. Given that you are assuming systems with a decent chunk of RAM, I'd suggest that you instead boot from live media, thus getting a full Debian system immediately, running in RAM, without the need to be restrained by the limitations of debian-installer. Then you ought to be able to simply install the zfs tools and modules into the in-RAM system (assuming one can load them without reboot), format disks as you require, and then install using e.g. debootstrap, without needing to worry about what debian-installer can or cannot do. I would guess that debian-live should be up to the task, but if doesn't work for some reason, you could also look at grml. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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