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 -- Nitebirdz
