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

2022-05-02 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I think that some type of message should be written in the installer that is used with speech telling the user that if you don't need to wipe the disk like if it is already encrypted then you can press control and c to abort the process so that the message is clear and so that it is known t

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

2022-05-02 Thread Holger Wansing
Am 2. Mai 2022 13:58:54 MESZ schrieb Samuel Thibault : >Holger Wansing, le lun. 02 mai 2022 13:52:36 +0200, a ecrit: >> Nick is right, if you perform an install with speech output, there is no >> interactive possibility to cancel the full disk wipe action in the text >> frontend used for speec

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

2022-05-02 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi Nick, Nick Gawronski wrote (Sun, 1 May 2022 17:19:48 -0500): > Hi, I am totally blind and use the s option at boot to start the > installer with speech output.  If I wish to add this kernel command line > option yet still run the installation using software speech output would > pressing s

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

2022-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le lun. 02 mai 2022 13:52:36 +0200, a ecrit: > Nick is right, if you perform an install with speech output, there is no > interactive possibility to cancel the full disk wipe action in the text > frontend used for speech! > In the newt frontend or graphical installer there is the

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

2022-05-01 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I am totally blind and use the s option at boot to start the installer with speech output.  If I wish to add this kernel command line option yet still run the installation using software speech output would pressing s then tab and then entering in the command line switches then pressing ent

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

2022-05-01 Thread Philip Hands
Nick Gawronski 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 contr

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

2022-05-01 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi, > Am 01.05.2022 um 02:04 schrieb Nick Gawronski : > 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

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

2022-04-30 Thread Nick Gawronski
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

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

2021-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le mer. 17 nov. 2021 21:58:00 +0100, a ecrit: > 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 Yes, but that's wa

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

2021-11-17 Thread john doe
On 11/17/2021 7:55 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Jordan Livesey, le mer. 17 nov. 2021 18:38:35 +, 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 fil

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

2021-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jordan Livesey, le mer. 17 nov. 2021 18:38:35 +, 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.

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

2021-11-17 Thread Jordan Livesey
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 On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 7:34 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 04 nov. 2021 01:18:16 +0100, a ecrit: > > Edhoari Setiyoso, le me

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

2021-11-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 04 nov. 2021 01:18:16 +0100, a ecrit: > 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. > > Indeed that can be a real pain. I don't know

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

2021-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, 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. Indeed that can be a real pain. I don't know a way to interrupt it with the text interface. I have submitted the feature re

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

2021-11-02 Thread Edhoari Setiyoso
Hi David, I should've mention that this procedure happened when we want to do full disk encryption with LVM. On other type of installation, I have no issue. On 11/3/21 06:58, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: If you have your /home files on a separate partition, the manual installer gives you the o

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

2021-11-02 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
If you have your /home files on a separate partition, the manual installer gives you the option of NOT formatting that partition, picking it for the /home partition. Then only - typically - the root / partition and swap are formatted which takes only seconds. Is there something I missed in your q

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

2021-11-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 18:51:47 From: Linux for blind general discussion To: blinux-l...@redhat.com Subject: Skipping disk erase on Debian text-based installation Hi all, I wonder if we can avoid disk erase process during debian text-based installation?