DebianZFS

DebianZFS is a bash script that automates a UEFI Debian installation on an encrypted ZFS pool. The script installs zfsutils-linux on Debian Live, then proceeds to partition, create the boot and root zpools, and debootstraps a minimal system.

Due to licensing concerns with OpenZFS and Linux, distributing the resulting binaries together in a disk image may be a copyright violation. However, nothing keeps you from legally building and keeping your own disk images.

Requires packer and qemu to build images

Quick Start

Clone the repository and navigate into the directory

git clone https://git.krislamo.org/kris/debianzfs
cd debianzfs

Build image
```
make
```

Copy qcow2 image to libvirt/images

sudo cp output/debianzfs.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/

Grab auto-generated passwords from the log
```
grep PW= debianzfs.log
```

Make a Libvirt VM and start

sudo virt-install --name debianzfs \
  --description 'Debian ZFS' \
  --ram 2048 \
  --vcpus 2 \
  --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/debianzfs.qcow2 \
  --os-type generic  \
  --network bridge=virbr0 \
  --graphics vnc,listen=127.0.0.1,port=5901 \
  --boot uefi,loader=/usr/shar/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd

If dropped into UEFI shell

Shell> FS0:
FS0:\> cd EFI\debian
FS0:\EFI\debian\> grubx64.efi

If dropped into initramfs
```
zpool import -f rpool
exit
```
Enter rpool password
Login with root's password

License

DebianZFS is licensed under 0BSD, a public domain equivalent license; see the LICENSE file for more information

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DebianZFS

Quick Start

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