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cjm · Installation

fsmithred wrote:

Which live-CD and installer are you using? Your screenshot is not a link.

I was using devuan_jessie_1.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso but now i've switched to devuan_jessie_1.0.0_amd64_CD.iso

fsmithred wrote:

The devuan desktop-live isos don't contain the standard installer. You might be able to do it with the cli version of refractainstaller, but you would have to edit the script so that it did not format your partitions.

I will take a look at this.

fsmithred wrote:

The thread you linked is for a full-disk encryption that includes encrypted /boot. That's different from what you have. Here's an account of someone doing it with a debian-live iso: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? … 3e#p571829
You might be able to do this with one of the regular devuan installer isos (e.g. netinstall). Choose expert install from the advanced options, before you get to partitioning, go to another virtual terminal and mount your partitions, then go back to installer and choose manual partitioning. You should be able to select partitions and use them without formatting them.

I have just tried this with the regular non-live Devuan installer CD but it uses ash shell and I can't seem to use or install dm-crypt or lvm2 from it

fsmithred wrote:

The debian-installer/devuan-installer will allow you to create encrypted lvm from scratch, if you can figure it out. It's not intuitive at all.

Failing all else I will try this. I have already backed up my /home to an external drive but would like to avoid having to transfer it back if possible as it contains over 700GB of files and i will have to transfer it via USB 2

Thank you for your help!

cjm · Installation

Hello all

I am trying to replace my Slackware 14.1 installation with Devuan Jessie on my existing setup which includes lvm partitions within a dm-crypt container. I have installed lvm2 from my live CD and activated all of my required partitions. My setup is as follows:

/dev/sda
--/dev/sda1 - ext4 (/boot)
--/dev/sda2 - dm-crypt (/dev/crypt)
----/dev/crypt/root - ext4 (/)
----/dev/crypt/home - ext4 (/home)
----/dev/crypt/swap - swap

I achieved this using the following commands:

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 crypt
vgscan --mknodes
vgchange -a y crypt

My problem arises when i attempt to run the installer; only /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 show up for selection. Here are the options i selected on the installer:

Is there a way I can get the Devuan installer to recognise the lvm volumes or do I need to create them from scratch? (I haven't actually seen the option to create lvm volumes in the installer as of yet. Does it have the functionality?)

Thanks in advance!

Edit: After a second look at the forum I found https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=559, which mentions using the standard installer - https://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan/devu … aller-iso/. I will try this now.

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#1 Re: Installation » Installing devuan to lvm partitions within dm-crypt container » 2017-06-04 18:57:04

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