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  • Many thanks! I should get to try it out by tomorrow, and let you know if I have any probs., and if not, choose your answer. Commented Apr 3, 2020 at 20:59
  • OK. I tried it. My sequence of screens was a little different, but I think I got the idea. I wound up with a set of partitions much like yours, except I a partition for /home is misguided, since it's just one more size barrier to bump up against, vs. having them all on one; and as in the ?, Linux needs much more swap space than 2x RAM - just open too many tabs, and its a hard reboot. Commented Apr 5, 2020 at 7:35
  • The problem is, I installed to bare metal, and have a FDD. When I rebooted, it said Failure reading sector 0x0 from 'fd0' and then error disk 'lvmid/XXX' not found. I definitely did create the logical volumes on the encrypted partition; as my partitions looked like yours, except without the /home partition. I found a guide online on how to get grub to re-install itself, using a live disk :/. I'll give that a try. Excellent guide, but it shouldn't be this hard. Commented Apr 5, 2020 at 7:40
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    @codelurker Sounds like you need the boot partition outside the encrypted lvm. Try creating the boot partition first then the encrypted part with lvm inside. Also how much ram does your system have? What size is your disk? 30 gb of swap is a lot. 8 gb of ram should be more than enough for dozens of chrome tabs. Please update your post. Thank you. Commented Apr 5, 2020 at 11:19
  • I had read that many ppl prefer Debian to, e.g. CentOS, due to the community. Commented Apr 5, 2020 at 16:58