################################################################## # 2019/01/01 - PsychOS 3.0.3 - Devuan Live and encryption issues # ################################################################## The current plan is to boot a live version of Devuan ASCII and get a closer look at its installer and see if it can be retained. The Devuan installer (Launcher) on the desktop for Live runs "/usr/bin/refractainstaller-wrapper.sh." This script has ties with "/usr/bin/refractainstaller-yad." I also noticed that there's a "/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-wrapper.sh." I'm just going to copy everything 'locate refracta' finds just in case. I created a fat32 bios_grub partition just before my /boot legacy_boot one to see if it would correct any Macbook-related issues. Turns out that the installer has an option automatically selected to run a script that removes the installer launcher from the desktop. I had to remove "boot esr legacy_boot" flags from /boot partition to be able to use it. Partition setup: ------------------------ /dev/sda1 fat32 16MB /dev/sda2 ext2 512MB /dev/sda3 ext4 60GB /dev/sda4 linuxswap 4GB /dev/sda5 ext4 The rest... ------------------------ The install was a success but was missing a few command-line utilities. Current workflow plan: 1. Install distro with encryption 2. Security fixes + lynis repo 3. libre-kernel repo 4. Add as many wanted packages as possible but avoid multimedia/ffmpeg stuff 5. Add more repos and continue adding packages and now add codecs 6. Cosmetics 7. Look into adding menu items for restricted codec installers and Nvidia. I made another build (3.0.3) and ran the installer. However, this time, I didn't format anything with 'gparted' and apparently, the build also included some sort of lvm encryption for "/" and "/home" partitions. After the installation, I get: cryptsetup (root_fs): lvm is not available For now on, I'm not encrypting any partitions before running 'respin.' It did eventually open a BusyBox shell, which I thought was interesting. I need to change the "Custom Debian Respin" logo when booting the live cd. Booted-up respin DVD and I'm still getting lvm errors. Live (failsafe) mode still produces the same errors. I'm going to have to install Devuan ASCII again and this time have no encrypted partitions; I had no idea they would copy over like that; but to be fair, I did run 'sudo respin backup.'