On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 05:07:10PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Interesting. I've used the Debian installer before, I think in the
> time of wheezy, and it worked with existing partitions.

So does the one in jessie.

I guess you did something wrong. As long as one partition is marked for
mounting as /, everything seems to work for me.

> Could sticking systemd into it have broken their partitioning? Did they
> really put systemd into the installer??

Not yet. Jessie's installer is systemd-free, except for unavoidably[1]
installing systemd on the target system.



[1]. You can partially remove it later using late_command, but by then, lots
of droppings are already there. Supporting packages, files, system users
and groups, etc...

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