vuxu.org: Void Install (LVM & LUKS)

Rough notes on a manual installation, with unencrypted /boot and encrypted / on LVM

(Rescued from the voidlinux/documentation wiki.)

Not meant to be copy & pasted, please think for yourself.

• boot hrmpf or GRML (any live CD should do)
• cfdisk /dev/sda
• create two partitions:
  • /dev/sda1 of size 200MB (at least) to mount as /boot
  • /dev/sda2 of all remaining free space for the LUKS container
• format boot disk:
  • mkfs.ext2 -L boot /dev/sda1
• initialize LUKS container:
  • cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda2
  • cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 crypt-pool
  • vgcreate pool /dev/mapper/crypt-pool
• create root pool:
  • lvcreate --name root -L 20G pool
  • mkfs.ext4 -L root /dev/mapper/pool-root
• create home:
  • lvcreate --name home -L 20G pool
  • mkfs.ext4 -L home /dev/mapper/pool-home
• create swap:
  • lvcreate --name swap -L 8G pool
  • mkswap -L swap /dev/mapper/pool-swap
• set up new root:
  • mount /dev/mapper/pool-root /mnt
  • mkdir /mnt/{boot,dev,proc,sys}
  • mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
  • mount --rbind /dev /mnt/dev
  • mount --rbind /proc /mnt/proc
  • mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys
• bootstrap xbps:
  • xbps-uhelper fetch https://repo.voidlinux.eu/static/xbps-static-latest.x86_64-musl.tar.xz
  • tar xof xbps-static-latest.x86_64-musl.tar.xz -C /mnt
• /mnt/usr/bin/xbps-install -S -R https://repo.voidlinux.eu/current -r /mnt base-system lvm2 cryptsetup grub
• Enter chroot: chroot /mnt /bin/bash
  • passwd root
  • chown root:root /
  • chmod 755 /
  • vi /etc/rc.conf
  • echo void-crypt >/etc/hostname
  • vi /etc/fstab
  • grub-install /dev/sda
  • echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >/etc/locale.conf
  • echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >>/etc/default/libc-locales
  • xbps-reconfigure -f glibc-locales
  • echo hostonly=yes >/etc/dracut.conf.d/hostonly.conf
  • force update of dracut and grub: xbps-reconfigure -f linux4.11
  • ^D
• reboot