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I've installed Debian on many MBP- and MBA -laptops. I use very simple solution during the installation = I connect my Iphone with wire on laptop. Wired network is on without any installation. Hi! Could you provide more details please? I tried to connect my iPhone via USB with Personal Hotspot enab...

Hi,

Why did Debian installer change my GPT from protective MBR to hybrid?

// MacBook Air 6,1 (11-inch, Early 2014)

Thank you!

kedaha wrote: I suppose you are able to do the installation using a wired connection?

I have the USB Ethernet adapter, but the only wired connection I can use here is PPPoE. Fortunately the Installation manual says that it's probably be working with ppp-udeb.

Thanks a lot again!

kedaha, thanks! stevepusser, very appreciated!

Is the proprietary broadcom-sta driver the only way for now? Is there an alternative free software driver (w/ non-free firmware) for this adapter?

Hi! I am trying to install Debian 10 on my MacBook Air 6,1. It has Broadcom BCM4360 [14e4:43a0] as a wireless adapter. If there any way to get it working during the installation? Thanks in advance!

Thanks, sej7278 . I think that before d-i 'Detect disks', I need do that: 1. switch to tty2 and make my partitions hierarchy manually with parted, cryptsetup and [pv|vg|lv]create (--align-payload for cryptsetup and --dataalignment for pvcreate is required); 2. back to tty1 and continue installation ...

Ok. How can I look which commands debian-installer run when it make LUKS/dm-crypt and LVM partitions?

Hi!

I want to install Debian on SSD. In general partition scheme must be as this:

1. /boot
2. swap
3. dm-crypt/lvm/[all other partitions]

How can I do partitions alignment during Debian installation for dm-crypt and LVM?