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

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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 encrypted, however I can’t make sense of
> the questions I am being asked and I can’t go passed that installation
> step.
> 
>  I could imagine I am not the only one who has tried to do something
> like that before. It seems the Debian encrypted installation gets a
> bit "temperamental" about partitions. Why would that be? Could you
> point me to a link explaining the installation procedures step by step
> when you need to keep a previous partition?
> 
>  I will post here how did I work myself out of that situation. Once I
> manage to do so.
> 
>  lbrtchx
> 

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/ccfbfce86484dc61834c1f17568d7b80


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trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition, keeping  the rest as it is ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2019-01-29 13:50 +0100
  Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Nitebirdz <nitebirdz@sacredchaos.com> - 2019-01-29 14:50 +0100
    Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2019-01-30 00:20 +0100
      Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-30 01:30 +0100
        Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2019-01-30 05:40 +0100
          Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2019-01-30 06:40 +0100
            Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-01-30 15:50 +0100
              Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-30 16:10 +0100
                Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-30 20:00 +0100
                Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-30 20:10 +0100
                Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-01-31 02:30 +0100
              Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> - 2019-01-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-01-31 02:30 +0100
            Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-01 04:40 +0100
              Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2019-02-05 10:50 +0100
                Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-05 17:40 +0100
          Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-31 22:40 +0100
      Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Nitebirdz <nitebirdz@sacredchaos.com> - 2019-01-30 15:50 +0100
  Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-30 11:10 +0100
  Re: trying to install Debian encrypted in an existed partition,  keeping the rest as it is ... Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-30 20:10 +0100

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