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Lähettäjä: KatolaZ
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Aihe: Re: [DNG] Ascii installation fails on i386 with dm-crypt partitions
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:26:48PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote:
>   Hello,
>     I wish to know if anyone has had issues installing Devuan Ascii Beta
> 2.0.0 with cryptsetup partitions on 32 bit systems using the graphical
> install. I did today, and when I got to defining the partitioning and
> filesystem layout, I set:

>
> /dev/sda1 -> ext4 -> /boot
> /dev/sda2 -> sda2_crypt -> ext4 -> /
> /dev/sda3 -> sda3_crypt -> ext4 -> /usr
> /dev/sda5 -> sda5_crypt -> ext4 -> /home
> /dev/sda6 -> sda6_crypt -> swap
>
> So far, so good. However, when I clicked on the button to finalize the
> layout, format che crypted partitions ant mount them for the installation to
> begin, I got the error that sda2_crypt failed to be mounted on /. I tried
> several times and I always got the same error. The log console (tty8?) did
> not show anything relevant, and neither did dmesg.
> I opened a terminal, I checked that the devices in /dev/mapper did exist.
> I formatted them by hand with mkfs.ext4 and I could mount
> /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt on /target (I also tried to mount it on another
> directory under /, but I cannot remember it's name; maybe /system?). No joy:
> the error popped up again and the installer would not allow me to go ahead.
>
> I'd like to know if it's it a known problem with the installer. Of course,
> I'd like someone to propose a workaround, something that could be done
> on the terminal to manually format and install the crypted partitions, skip
> the disk setup step and go ahead with the installation.
>
>


Hi Alessandro,

thanks a lot for your report. It would be great to have the
/var/log/syslog created by d-i at install time. That would help
debugging the issue, maybe.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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