Growlight

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Growlight is Sprezzatech's installer project, designed for use with SprezzOS.

Definite Goals

• Boot with a single image on UEFI/BIOS-based machines
  • http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html
  • http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/UEFI
• As much compatibility with debian installer as is reasonable/justified
  • http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/slides/Debian_installer_workshop-Frans_Pop/paper/
• Look as good as is reasonable

Disks

• Fully support ZFS during install, include RAIDZ setup
• Use GPT (correctly) by default.
• Extract true parameters from SSDs and 4k sector (especially WD-EARS) drives
• Properly align everything

Possible Goals

• Install either Linux or FreeBSD
• Look as good as is possible