Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-02-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Feb 2019 at 04:42:02 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 1/31/19, David Wright wrote: > >> If for whatever reason you disown that computer, you would just > >> delete that partition. Your own data you will keep on a USB pen or > >> microdrive. > > > > Something like that. I'd run badb

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-02-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/31/19, David Wright wrote: >> If for whatever reason you disown that computer, you would just >> delete that partition. Your own data you will keep on a USB pen or >> microdrive. > > Something like that. I'd run badblocks over the unencrypted partitions. >  Why? Do you mean the low level fo

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 00:30:40 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > use case: > > Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you > would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: > > 1) resize the larger, Windows proper (/dev/sda3) partition Yes, the largest partition (/

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Jan 2019 at 23:36:27 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 1/29/19, David Wright wrote: > > However, the second method uses manual partitioning of the disks with > > gdisk, so I don't see why sda should not contain a(nother) FAT > > partition which is ignored. > > I don't see why eithe

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread David Christensen
On 1/30/19 11:05 AM, Brian wrote: On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 19:51:06 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 30/01/2019 à 16:01, Brian a écrit : On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 06:42:30 -0800, David Christensen wrote: To avoid confusion, install (and update/upgrade) on a computer with no other drives connected (

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread David Christensen
On 1/30/19 11:03 AM, Thomas D Dial wrote: On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 06:42 -0800, David Christensen wrote: If you want a portable Debian installation, install Debian on a USB flash drive. To avoid confusion, install (and update/upgrade) on a computer with no other drives connected (so that GRUB does

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Thomas D Dial
On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 06:42 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/29/19 9:30 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > use case: > > > > Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you > > would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: > > > > 1) resize the larger, Windows pr

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 19:51:06 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 30/01/2019 à 16:01, Brian a écrit : > > On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 06:42:30 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > To avoid confusion, install (and update/upgrade) on a computer with > > > no other drives connected (so that GRUB do

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/01/2019 à 13:45, Albretch Mueller a écrit : I got one of those office computers I would like to recycle. It has a fat16 (as /dev/sda1) partition with some manufacturer’s selftests which I would like to keep. So, I wiped the rest of the other two partitions to install Debian encrypted, how

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/01/2019 à 16:01, Brian a écrit : On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 06:42:30 -0800, David Christensen wrote: To avoid confusion, install (and update/upgrade) on a computer with no other drives connected (so that GRUB does not create boot menu entries for other operating systems). (...) Wouldn't remo

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 06:42:30 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/29/19 9:30 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > use case: > > > > Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you > > would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: > > > > 1) resize the larger, Window

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Nitebirdz
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 06:15:23PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 1/29/19, Nitebirdz wrote: > > I used the following two documents sometime ago to perform a similar > > install. Hopefully, they will be of some help to you too. > > > > https://xo.tc/setting-up-full-disk-encryption-on-debian-9-

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread David Christensen
On 1/29/19 9:30 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote: use case: Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: 1) resize the larger, Windows proper (/dev/sda3) partition 2) install Linux encrypted in the created space, with

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 07:45:40AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: I got one of those office computers I would like to recycle. It has a fat16 (as /dev/sda1) partition with some manufacturer’s selftests which I would like to keep. So, I wiped the rest of the other two partitions to install Debian

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
use case: Say, you have a computer preinstalled with Windows, on which you would like to install a Debian Linux base. You would: 1) resize the larger, Windows proper (/dev/sda3) partition 2) install Linux encrypted in the created space, with 3) what you need to start it up (the /root partiti

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/29/19, David Wright wrote: > However, the second method uses manual partitioning of the disks with > gdisk, so I don't see why sda should not contain a(nother) FAT > partition which is ignored. I don't see why either. Also, given the fact that so many, entirely fine computers (with 4+ Gibs

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Jan 2019 at 18:15:23 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 1/29/19, Nitebirdz wrote: > > I used the following two documents sometime ago to perform a similar > > install. Hopefully, they will be of some help to you too. > > > > https://xo.tc/setting-up-full-disk-encryption-on-debian-9-st

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/29/19, Nitebirdz wrote: > I used the following two documents sometime ago to perform a similar > install. Hopefully, they will be of some help to you too. > > https://xo.tc/setting-up-full-disk-encryption-on-debian-9-stretch.html > > https://gist.github.com/ppmathis/ccfbfce86484dc61834c1f1756

Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Nitebirdz
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 07:45:40AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I got one of those office computers I would like to recycle. It has a > fat16 (as /dev/sda1) partition with some manufacturer’s selftests > which I would like to keep. So, I wiped the rest of the other two > partitions to install

trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping the rest as it is ...

2019-01-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
I got one of those office computers I would like to recycle. It has a fat16 (as /dev/sda1) partition with some manufacturer’s selftests which I would like to keep. So, I wiped the rest of the other two partitions to install Debian encrypted, however I can’t make sense of the questions I am being a