dear Hendrik,

On Sun, 01 Mar 2015, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three
> primary partitions and a lot of empty space.
>
> I could not get manual partitioning to leave the existing partitions
> alone and install devuan to secondary partitions in the empty space. The
> closest I could get was a question whether I'd like it to replace the
> existing partition table with a new empty one. Of course I answered
> 'no'. I wanted it to start from the existing partition structure.
> 'yes' seemed somewhat dangerous.


this may be food for thought for debian-installer "upstream" at Debian.
We will not fix it further than removing systemd in this phase and the
limits that you mention are also in Debian I believe.

ciao