Hi, I think this would be a great idea as I can see lots of uses for
reusing such a setup and not just for reinstallation but if you had
groups like one for the root partition and one for the home partition.
If you currently try to split your system into two volume groups with an
one terabyte volume it does not split them evenly and I had like a ten
megabyte group for the root and a ten megabyte for the home group. I
would have also thought that there would be a way to resize things like
if you want a smaller or larger sized swap group or none at all this
should be doable as currently once you say yes and it partitions it for
LVM there are no ways to currently set sizes. I do know how to pull the
debian-installer sources from git but how do you work on the different
items in the source tree as from reading the output of the make commands
it looks like lots of the different components are pulled in during the
building process already compiled so what am I missing to be able to
look at the source code for the different components so I can do test
builds? One thing I was wanting to test out as I am totally blind and
use the speech output during the installer is to build an iso image that
just automatically boots and starts the speech output or has like a
single letter target for running it with speech which it currently does
with s but if you are wanting to do things like rescue mode you have to
press < to get back to the main menu then load the rescue mode guessing
at when is the proper time after having debconf set to low priority and
then you might not find the numbered choice in the menu in time after
some steps are properly picked. Nick Gawronski
On 7/8/2025 1:08 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
On 08/07/2025 at 00:41, Nick Gawronski wrote:
Hi, I have my luks encryption setup and just want to reinstall the
operating system but use the existing encryption keys and
passphraises but no matter what I try in the debian-installer on the
development page regardless of what I load I am unable to have the
installer see or even access the luks volume.
Partman-crypto currently does not support re-using existing LUKS
volumes. I guess it is possible to manually open a LUKS volume in an
installer shell but this is still a hack. I'd like to work on proper
support after trixie, but at first sight this seems far from trivial.
