From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from v1.tansi.org (mail.tansi.org [84.19.178.47]) by mail.server123.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 22 May 2018 10:53:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (unknown [212.51.156.222]) by v1.tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6A45E140085 for ; Tue, 22 May 2018 10:53:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 10:53:50 +0200 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20180522085350.GA3523@tansi.org> References: <56ff45f7-021b-4e0d-1c6a-0163beb1faa8@gmail.com> <9190e127-956e-7def-d663-f653001ff620@xoxy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9190e127-956e-7def-d663-f653001ff620@xoxy.net> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Mildly OT: LUKS and the Debian installer List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de The only advice I have is to roll your own initrd. Not that hard, at least with sysVinit (no idea about systemd, I do not use it). FAQ Chapter 9 gives some pointers: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#9-the-initrd-question Regards, Arno On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 09:50:39 CEST, Diagon wrote: > So I'm doing something that I've done many times with Ubuntu. That is, > preparing my disks in the live system (usually /boot on a USB stick and > / on luks, no partition table on that second drive), then running the > install, and finally pivoting in to fix crypttab and update the initramfs. > > After many tries with the debian installer, I've almost been able to get > this to work, though it does need some tending to to get there. The > problem comes after I've pivoted in. I install cryptsetup, as I find > that it's not there, and then correct crypttab/initramfs. Oddly, I find > the initramfs does not include cryptsetup. Hmmm. > > I'm getting crickets on the Debian user list, but I figure someone here > must have done something like this. Any hope I might find help? > > /D > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@saout.de > https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier