Any installer will do, there is nothing special to be done to make grub boot an encrypted root. I am using FDE with unencrypted /boot and an LVM in an encrypted partition for / and /swap for many years now, no issues. Legacy Bios or efi, mbr or gpt do not matter, all combinations work.

Cook book:
* I only use manual partitioning: p1 with 2048 MB for /boot, ext4; for p2 the encrypted partition I use 32G for / plus at least 32G for swap, i.e. 65535MB. Change these values to your demands.
* Select volume for encryption for p2. You have to enter a PW for the encryption.
* Select that volume and change it from ext4 to a physical volume for LVM.
* Define vg and logical volumes. Make one LV to /, ext4, the other one to swap.
* Write all to disk and continue with the installation. At the end the system should boot automagically and ask for the PW for decryption.

Manually setting everything up is a bit fidelly. There is a guide for guided setup at: https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … encryption which is much easier.

Good luck, rolfie

Use the normal net-installer, not the live media for installation. Then you have the option of creating an LVM. I do this all the time for my encrypted installations.

VBox 6.1.36 has been released. Builds kernel modules against 5.18 kernel now.

When you search the forum a bit, you will find threads that describe that there were issues generating new installer isos for Daedalus. The note in the Daedalus directory suggest to use Chimaera media and then to upgrade to Daedalus for the time being.

Guess: the install media was booted in legacy mode. I have installed Chimaera so often in efi mode meanwhile I can't imagine what else might have gone wrong.

I guess your experience is explainable. If you want to install a DE manually, you must disable the DE choice in the installer and XFCE which is the default. Then you are not getting asked which DM to install, and that DM will not pull the default DE as dependency as it happened to you. I do all my installs nowadays by just using the netinstall and to install just the basic system utilities. Then I manually install xorg, lightdm and mate or cinnamon w/o install-recommends and build the system as I like it. 

The second problem appears when you skip loading some basic options during expert install. Then you are not getting the advanced file systems, just the very basic ones.

Got Arch, Beowulf and Chimaera working independently from each other, all encrypted. Boundary conditions: modern X570 MB configured to UEFI only, NVME gpt partitioned. Arch w/o separate /boot, Beowulf and Chimaera with separate individual /boot partitions. Per default Chimaera is booted, if I want Beowulf or Arch I need to use the F8 key on my MB to select the OS to be started.

To which package does "la" belong? My bash (Chimaera from net-install) tells me command not found.

Just my 2 cents: I have approved the usrmerge option when being asked on all new installations that asked that question. I cannot see any reason to not agree. And I haven't seen any problems due to usrmerge in my small home network.

I have some SW in /opt, like FF, LO, TB, tor. All installed from external sources like tarballs from Mozilla, or the deb for a fresher LO version directly downloaded.

You should use deb.devuan.org/merged, see https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

Does its job for me.

Don't mix up kernels (linux-image) with kernel headers (linux-headers).

You should not consider mixing distros.

My suggestion is to consider upgrading to Chimaera.

rolfie

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