Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com> writes:
Hi, I had to reinstall debian and like to encrypt my installations.
Regardless of what installation image I use I find that no choice exists
to not do the complete wiping of the disk before the LVM manager is
setup. I get that it will be possible to press control and c to stop
the process but having an option like a choice in the last step asking
if you wish to do this complete wipe would be better. If the system was
already encrypted and all you were doing was doing a reinstallation then
going threw that process again to me is pointless. Is this
something that could possibly be looked at for a future release? Nick
Gawronski
If you're doing an interactive install, the expectation is that you
cancel it if you don't want to wait for it, since that seems the way to
ensure that people that don't know what they're doing still get a safe
result.
It's been possible to override this via preseeding (since 2017[1]),
either in a preseed.cfg, thus:
d-i partman-auto-crypto/erase_disks boolean false
or on the kernel command line:
partman-auto-crypto/erase_disks=false
which you could do in an otherwise interactive install, if that's what
you wanted.
For more such preseeding hints, check out the example preseed.cfg:
https://d-i.debian.org/manual/example-preseed.txt
which is linked to from here:
https://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/apbs02.html
HTH
Cheers, Phil.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/476388