[NCLUG] Debian wheezy crypto install - skip the 6-hour erase?

[n0wiq]

Hi People,

I once asked how many partitions I could put on one of these huge hard 
afordable disks of this day and age.   How about adding a second hard 
drive to your workstation leaving it un-intercepted install the 
operating system and applications on the second hard drive.  And use the 
installed system to access the hard intercepted drive.  I have put on my 
web site a description of why I partition a drive as a first level 
division of data.

Kerry N0WIQ
My web site URL is:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/n0wiq

On 02/22/2013 06:42 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> I just had a install fail on me - but AFTER the six hour erase of the
> encrypted hard disk. Is there a way to skip that step the second time
> around?
>
> How about skip it the first time through- the hard drive contained
> encrypted data to begin with, so is there really any point to erasing it
> anyway?
>
> And on a not completely unrelated point - having restarted the install, is
> there a safe way to abort the erasure and continue the install?
>
> I just really don't want to wait ANOTHER six hours before I can setup the
> LVM (AGAIN!) and try to install packages again. If there is a shortcut,
> maybe I can get the install completed and my home directory restored before
> I go to class tomorrow morning. It'd be nice to have my laptop with me.
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