Re: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation (fwd)

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 11/17/2021 7:55 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Jordan Livesey, le mer. 17 nov. 2021 18:38:35 +0000, a ecrit:
> > as far as I know during installation even if you manually partitioned your disk
> > its still gonna format it so that debian can be installed
>
> Formatting is mandatory for the root filesystem indeed.
>
> Edhoari Setiyoso, le mer. 03 nov. 2021 07:24:28 +0700, a ecrit:
> > I should've mention that this procedure happened when we want to do
> > full disk encryption with LVM.
>
> This is about an encrypted LVM. That step is before actual disk
> partitionning and filesystem set up.

Unless I'm missing something, one could preseed this question as kernel
boot parameter:

# When disk encryption is enabled, skip wiping the partitions beforehand.
#d-i partman-auto-crypto/erase_disks boolean false

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John Doe