Bug#1088279: Bug report 1088279

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Wiebe van der Worp <[email protected]> (2024-11-26):
> Steps to reproduce in net-installer, more or less quoted from
> https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/146vw37/guide_install_debian_with_encrypted_root_and/
> 
> Installer menu Partitioning
> 1 Select "Manual Partitioning"
> 2 Select the free space/partition and choose "create partition."
> 3 Use As: Physical Volume for Encryption
> 4 Scroll up to "configure encrypted volumes" > write changes, then "create
> encrypted volumes."
> 5 Select "partition" > "finish"
> 6 Create your encryption password
> 7 Partition disks....
> 8 Scroll to "encrypted volume" and select the partition listed beneath to
> edit it.
> 9 Set mount point to "/" (root) > done setting up partition
> 10 Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
> 
> Typically net-installer does not offer step 8 while DVD-installer does. In
> other words, "encrypted volume" is simply not visible.

I've just tried that with debian-12.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso (and its 12.7
counterpart to be on the safe side) and I'm seeing the encrypted volume
just fine with both of them.

First entry is sda1_crypt, Linux device-mapper (crypt)
  partition #1 is ext4, not assigned to a mountpoint initially

Second entry is sda, ATA QEMU HARDDISK
  partition #1 is encrypted (sda1_crypt)

> As a consequence it is impossible to do step 9: select the volume and
> assign a mount point.
> 
> Summarized, installing Debian using the net-installer on an encrypted
> root partition is impossible.

Strong disagree. Even more so given we provide guided partitioning with
encrypted LVM, which also works.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois ([email protected])            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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