First of all, crypto needs to be done using newt ("install", not installgui). This is a known limitation of debian-installer and documented somewhere on the d-i website. Secondly, when installing from something involving an iso image, d-i will load the...

When installing from something involving an ISO image, d-i will load the wrong loop module and later on setting up loop-aes will fail. After generating enough randomness, you will receive the message "An error has occured while configuring encrypted volumes",...

If you are trying to use SSH inside a debian-installer session, you might run into some problems... With the installer from lenny, ssh will complain about a missing libz.so.1. I couldn't find this file anywhere on the media, it is...

If you want to use the SCIM Input Method Editor on Debian (Etch) together with the official Firefox, you will ineviably be presented with: /opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 7083 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} zsh: exit 139 /opt/firefox/firefox Apparently the problem is...

Let me put it straight right away; I didn’t get bx to work reliably on amd64 and I don’t have the necessary C knowledge nor enthusiasm to endulge myself in finding the problems. What I’ll outline here is just the...

Now we have this typical scenario here where you need to install your boot loader. Into the MBR. And you’re running Debian. Plus, you decided to format your / as xfs. The whole procedure is kind of like magic. Let...

Ach ja, falls ihr fuer eure root Partition einen Schluessel mit mehreren Zeilen (Zeilenumbruch) ausgewaehlt habt, das kann das Debian init Script nicht -- also nicht verzweifeln beim Versuch den Schluessel einzutippen, es geht einfach nicht (auch nicht von externen...

Sometimes I’m not quite fond of my Debian Linux. Recently I could barely help myself from putting my head in the cement mixer. What you want: Two harddisks, software mirroring for /boot and /, crypt for everything but /boot Lilo...