Hi Andy, Thanks for coming back to me:-On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Morgan Read wrote: > On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote: > >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as > >> described here: > >> https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-846321060 > >> And, (unnecessarily as it turned out) re-installed my system, I find > >> I'm unable to boot. ... > ...Morgan,
Actually, it was calamares that worked better than d-i - after failing with Debian's calamares live install I followed the instructions for d-i here:Possibly just don't use calamares. Use the standard Debian installer (d-i for short). Either the standard or expert installs offer you "ordinary" LVM or encrypted LVM with LUKS, made even more straightforward if you can choose
https://www.blakehartshorn.com/installing-debian-on-existing-encrypted-lvm/
Blake Hartshorn seems to do a pretty good job of describing the problem and solution. However, it wasn't a solution for me because the install failed repeatedly over the course of a couple of days (I was using 10.10 cf. BH using 10.4) - it wasn't until after I'd invested in a new flash drive and continued with the same fails that I tried the PureOS live install, which worked. You can read a full discussion of my woes here:
https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-898246354
Essentially, d-i couldn't get passed either the base system dpkg install (most usually base-passwd) or the following software install. The dpkg warnings were thrown on "parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 5 package 'dpkg' : missing description field" with errors on the stateoverride file.
I would have filed bug reports but then Debian went to 11 and I figured there'd be a new disk spun so it was all history anyway and I had a working machine with PureOS.
That's interesting - so nothing for hibernation on swap? I gave 8G to allow for hibernation, but would happily give it away if I could?Also: the standard size for swap is now 1G and for a dedicated /tmp partition of 2G.
Many thanks.
-- Morgan Read UNITED KINGDOM Em: <email:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz> Confused about DRM? Get all the info you need at: <http://drm.info/>
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