Perhaps you realize, but I didn't see it mentioned. You can encrypt manually with the Standard Installer and skip creating a swap partition (there'll be a squawk, but you can install over it). Alternatively, you can let the installer do a default encrypted system (will use LVM), then adjust the swap volume later. Main drawback is that, either way, unlike Calamares, the Standard Installer uses a non-encrypted boot partition. By the way, you don't need to download a separate ISO to do a standard installation. The "Start installer" option on the live boot menu opens the Standard Installer (except it's hard coded to install the live ISO's desktop).I just installed Cinnamon version of Debian from Live USB onto a USB thumb drive
As an aside, I will point out there's no need to encrypt the system to encrypt data. Frankly, I think system encryption is one of those things people do mostly because they can.
Statistics: Posted by pbear — 2025-02-22 06:35 — Replies 7 — Views 319