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Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

Meh, the #OpenSuse #Tumbleweed installer doesn't properly start on this low power machine (Futro S720). Hope #Debian does it, I really don't want to use #ArchLinux and have all that additional setup work. :/
#Linux

HankB

@Natanox I recently installed Debian on a J1900 with 4GB RAM with no difficulty.

I probably used the netinst installer in text mode.

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

@HankB Debian does work, the partition manager doesn't give me the necessary freedom though. I'll probably just use Arch at this point.

Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him

Interesting! I thought the Debian installer gives you the option to define partitions whatever way you want. What's missing?

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@dj3ei @Natanox

> Debian installer gives you the option to define partitions

I'm pretty sure it does, but I'm not sure how obvious/easy it is to use. Definitely an advanced kind of thing.

I usually choose default partitioning (and maybe /home on a different partition) or I'm installing with root on ZFS which is not a typical installation.

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

@HankB @dj3ei I tried to install the system inside LUKS2, however the installer didn't give me proper control over what's inside the LUKS partition. It seemed like it expected me to only encrypt whole disks, not partitions.
The experience with it honestly was rather bad in general.

Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him

The plain vanilla thing is to have encryption below the physical volumne(s) and grow LVM partitions on top of that. You're doing it opposite. That must be an interesting use case you're pursuing, @Natanox ! Could you be persuaded to reveal it to this ever-curious old Linux hacker?

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