NBD in d-i

Success!

It only took, erm,

wouter@celtic:~/debian/debian-installer-wouter/partman-nbd/debian$ cat changelog 
partman-nbd (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Initial release.

 -- Wouter Verhelst   Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:45:43 +0100

just over three years, but I've finally gotten it to work. More or less.

That is to say, I have a VM currently running which is finishing up an installation. It hasn't completed yet, but it's gotten past the critical point now and I'm hopeful that a reboot test will be successful. If it is, I'll need to make sure that the updates that I've done on the live installer to massage it into running are committed to packages too, and then I'm all set.

Looks like you'll be able to install wheezy on a system without hard disk. How's that for 'Universal operating system'?