I wrote an alternative Debian installer. It's a toy, but you can read about it on my blog.
https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2020/02/29/alternative_debian_installer_based_on_vmdb2_v-i/
@liw welcome to the alternate debian installer club
I'm the founder but also a recent member.
@joeyh It would be a fun hobby, except I keep having fights with grub and grub-installer. Pretty much everything else is easy.
@liw yes, 10 foot pole should be deployed to carefully manipulate a 100 foot pole
@liw This looks great! Any chance you are thinking about what it would take to make this work on ARM? Would be really cool for building RPi (Raspbian) or Armbian systems.
@KnowPresent https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPiImages there are images being built for RPi 1-3 by people other than me already.
@liw @joeyh @KnowPresent debootstrap works very well, but it is a pain to install boot loader for some specific machines.
Important bit: "I dream of a future where I can install a bare metal machine as easily as I can create and configure a VM."