Hi there, I would like to see such a feature, too. There are two situations when it's usefull. Since I found a way dealing with it
1. Some time ago I killed my initrd during an update and had to repair my encrypted LVM system. D-I helped repairing it in rescue mode: - Booting D-I (Wheezy, testing around april 2012) in Rescue-Mode - IIRC D-I allowed to enter the passphrase for the encrypted LVM - choosed root-partition - opened tty2: - mount /boot - mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-rescue 3.2.0-2-amd64 - exit and reboot - during startup I had to change the initrd (grub). This could be repaired by updating grub in the running system. 2. I now would like to install jessie as a second OS. I want it to live in a seperate volume of my existing encrypted LVM, but D-I (from end October 2013) is not able to recognize it automatically. I found an older tutorial (german language) for a workaround at http://blog.stefan-betz.net/2009/1/6/debian-installer-mit-bereits-vorhandenem-verschluesseltem-lvm-verwenden/ It says: - boot D-I as usual - after setting up networking (in partitioing menu) go back to main menu - open tty2 (ALT+F2) and enter the following commands: depmod -a modprobe dm-mod modprobe dm-snapshot cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 sda2_crypt vgchange -a y ... But here is the point it doesn't work: cryptsetup: command not found. I tried to load the components via the d-i menu, but this doesn't work, too. Modules are loadable but I can't find crytpsetup itself. Of course there is a way to work around it, but my abilities comes to its limits and it seems to be less painfull using debootstrap. So: it would be (very) nice to have it officially supported in d-i. Christian Meyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
