On Tue 15 May 2018 at 23:05:10 (-0700), Diagonal Arg wrote:
> On my first tries with the Debian installer, I am struggling with the limited
> resources for installing to encrypted disks. I am using the same technique I
> have used with Ubuntu, but failing at the last step:
>
> I create my luks disk(s) before-hand, then run the installer. I find I have
> to anna-install cryptsetup-udeb, as there is no such choice in "Load
> Installer Modules". Dropping to a shell, opening the disk, and re-detecting
> hard drives allows me to carry out the installation (as long as there's a
> filesystem in the mapped device), but on reboot I'm at an initramfs without
> cryptsetup. So I use a debian-live to pivot into the system to create a
> crypttab. I find I also have to install cryptsetup. Then I run
> update-initramfs. Here is where I'm stuck. The new initramfs still does not
> include cryptsetup. Why is it not recognizing the crypttab?
Are you not seeing the last line in this screen excerpt?
┌────────────────────┤ [?] Load installer components from CD
├────────────────────┐
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│ All components of the installer needed to complete the install will be
loaded │
│ automatically and are not listed here. Some other (optional) installer
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│ components are shown below. They are probably not necessary, but may be
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│ interesting to some users.
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│
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│ Note that if you select a component that requires others, those components
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│ will also be loaded.
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│ Installer components to load:
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│ [ ] choose-mirror: Choose mirror to install from (menu item)
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│ [ ] crypto-dm-modules-4.9.0-2-686-di: devicemapper crypto module
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Cheers,
David.
