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

1. Clone the repository and navigate into the directory

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

2. Build image

   make
   

3. Copy qcow2 image to libvirt/images

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

4. Grab auto-generated passwords from the log

   grep PW= debianzfs.log
   

5. 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
   

6. If dropped into UEFI shell

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

7. If dropped into initramfs

   zpool import -f rpool
   exit
   

8. Enter rpool password

9. Login with root's password

License

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