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How to convert or where to search or extract partitioning commands used in kicksecure calamares.

I would partition through cli for learning purpose while having same kicksecure partitioning results

As an example
Straightforward Luks on partition + encrypted separat swap , all online guides i found are only combined with LVM

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Unfortunately, this is very complicated. C++ source code. Developers only. Users will be unable to figure out the commands by looking at the source code.

Therefore unsupported.

Unspecific to Kicksecure.

Can only be resolved as per:

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Alright.
I will look forward on debian based sources.as i have used live iso calamares installer . it created two luks partitions . swap

I will test again kicksecure on vm and bare metal and study luks partition layout.

There are several layouts .lvm . btfrs …

I would know if you told calamares to create spesific layout and why exactly this sheme on kicksecure.

Is there a recommended luks partition sheme

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Is it possible to chroot into live kicksecure and do manual partitioning, installing

It would be great to have a guide on the wiki.

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Not planned.

The same features as with Debian and Calamares installer should be available.

Unspecific to Kicksecure.

Can be resolved as per:

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Yes .

Debian calamares installer created sda1 as luks root
sda2 as swap luks partition from sda
Only one password needed at boot for both .

What exactly I wanted
Creating manually the above sheme , must not be luks1 or encrypted boot

I found only one old guide .but crypttab and fstab then looks not the same somehow as what calamares did

I searched more . they are using LVM when creating swap partition only . I dont want LVM

Now my desire to the above are changed.

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Kicksecure cannot support a lot complex partitioning choices. See Allow restricting the filesystem's usable in manual partitioning by ArrayBolt3 · Pull Request #2400 · calamares/calamares · GitHub to get an insight how complicated, involved that was.

So for complex partitioning or calamares customizations the only realistic options are either becoming a developer or paying a developer. I highly doubt any forum can answer this for free. This is much too complicated.

Luks1 version issue -> port to Luks2 has been implemented.

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I guess you misunderstood my goal.

Details:

I have inatalled debian live iso, calanares created 2 simple partitions
sda—sda1 root luks—sda2 cryptswap

Goal
Install the same above using CLI instead of calamares.

Is there anything wrong when i found a guide to do that.

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It’s very most likely possible but undocumented. It’s an advanced sysadmin task.

  1. partition
  2. install bootloader
  3. install kernel
  4. install operating system inside chroot

Guide Install Kicksecure inside a folder (chroot) might help but needs adjustment for this use case. A skilled sysadmin would be able to accomplish this.

That kind of stuff you need to learn yourself or pay people to do it.

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Deboostrap debian is the magic word for searching

Then i replace deboostrap with mmdebstrap as per kicksecure dev wiki

Thanks

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If anyone can figure this out, which is undoubtedly difficult, a contribution to document this process in the wiki would be most welcome.

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I foun this . but its not a bullet proof.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.en.html

Can be inspired by it .

I didn’t expect it to be complicated unlike arch

I’d rather stay by TUI installer and focus on buiding own iso.