The only advice I have is to roll your own initrd. Not that hard, at least with sysVinit (no idea about systemd, I do not use it). FAQ Chapter 9 gives some pointers: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#9-the-initrd-question Regards, Arno On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 09:50:39 CEST, Diagon wrote: > So I'm doing something that I've done many times with Ubuntu. That is, > preparing my disks in the live system (usually /boot on a USB stick and > / on luks, no partition table on that second drive), then running the > install, and finally pivoting in to fix crypttab and update the initramfs. > > After many tries with the debian installer, I've almost been able to get > this to work, though it does need some tending to to get there. The > problem comes after I've pivoted in. I install cryptsetup, as I find > that it's not there, and then correct crypttab/initramfs. Oddly, I find > the initramfs does not include cryptsetup. Hmmm. > > I'm getting crickets on the Debian user list, but I figure someone here > must have done something like this. Any hope I might find help? > > /D > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
