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In the following gist I'm going to guide you through the process of installing and booting an entire linux distribution with full desktop environment just like you would have with a classical VM, but with much better performance and much worse isolation :)

The reason why I did this was mainly because it's cool, but also to test new distros with decent graphics performance without actually booting them on my PC.

If you "try this at home" just keep in mind a container is not as secure as a VM, and some of the option we're going to explore will weaken container isolation from "a bit risky" to "totally unsafe" depending on what you choose.

Also, we're going to use systemd-nspawn for containers as it's probably the best fit for our use case and can also boot any linux partition without needing to prepare an apposite container image.

Less go!

The Art of Installing Debian the Arch-way

Around 2005, I published in my personal blog in Wordpress a small tutorial on how to install Debian the Nerd-way. That post is long gone now, and it was more like a small reference guide for myself than anything else. Recently I tried some of those steps again just for fun to see they still work and they do!

As you move on in this tutorial, you will notice it resembles a lot the Arch Linux installation method (hence the title). That's not a surprise since all of this existed even before Arch was popularized.

This work grabs some steps from the Instaling Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System, in the Random Bits appendix from the Debian documentation. I decided to create one of my own because some of those steps could be either abbreviated or more detailed.

DISCLAIMER: as you already suspect, these steps will potentially break your system! Read every step carefully and check what applie

Installing Debian

prepare storage

prepare

create a memory storage for secure files

mkdir -p /prepare

On another Debian (x86 or arm64, doesn't matter much).

apt install distrobuilder qemu-system-common

Create a configuration file (debian.yml for example) for your LXC image :

image:
  description: |-
    Nearly stock Debian Bookworm image

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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abx

ABX test of audio files

abx original.wav lossy.wav

	#!/bin/bash
	# Ubuntu Installation Script with LUKS-encrypted BTRFS, systemd-boot, and Secure Boot
	# Author: Claude (modified and improved with apt speed enhancements)
	# Usage: sudo bash script.sh [install_device] [username] [hostname] [locale] [language] [timezone]
	# Passwords can be provided via environment or will be prompted securely.

	set -euo pipefail

	# Log file for the installation process
	LOGFILE="/var/log/ubuntu_install_script.log"

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# OpenWrt Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_MODULES=y
	CONFIG_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG=y
	CONFIG_HOST_OS_LINUX=y
	# CONFIG_HOST_OS_MACOS is not set
	# CONFIG_TARGET_airoha is not set
	# CONFIG_TARGET_d1 is not set

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# Linux/arm64 6.1.99 Kernel Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (ctng-1.25.0-119g-FA) 11.3.0"
	CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
	CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=110300
	CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION=0
	CONFIG_AS_IS_GNU=y
	CONFIG_AS_VERSION=23800

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# U-Boot 2017.09 Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_CREATE_ARCH_SYMLINK=y
	# CONFIG_ARC is not set
	CONFIG_ARM=y
	# CONFIG_M68K is not set
	# CONFIG_MICROBLAZE is not set
	# CONFIG_MIPS is not set

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# OpenWrt Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_MODULES=y
	CONFIG_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG=y
	CONFIG_HOST_OS_LINUX=y
	# CONFIG_HOST_OS_MACOS is not set
	# CONFIG_TARGET_airoha is not set
	# CONFIG_TARGET_sunxi is not set