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Debian set up (using SpiralLinux as installer)

 https://github.com/SpiralLinux/SpiralLinux-project (for Btrfs/Snapper set up)

 

Disk creation:  

1. Select Manual Partitioning in Calamares
2. Create the partition table (if starting fresh):
◦  Select your disk (e.g., /dev/vda)
◦  Create a new GPT partition table
3. Create EFI System Partition:
◦  Size: 1024 MiB (1 GB as requested, instead of 300M)
◦  File system: FAT32
◦  Mount point: /boot/efi
◦  Flags: Set the boot and esp flags
4. Create Root Partition:
◦  Size: Remaining space (~79 GB)
◦  File system: Btrfs (since your setup shows multiple subvolumes)
◦  Mount point: /
◦  No flags needed
5. Configure Btrfs Subvolumes (if Calamares supports it):
   After creating the Btrfs partition, you'll need to set up subvolumes for:
•  @ → /
•  @home → /home
•  @root → /root
•  @tmp → /tmp
•  @log → /var/log
•  @snapshots → /.snapshots 

 

Install Cosmic Desktop (from Fedora COPR): https://github.com/davidecavestro/cosmic-debian-sh-installer.git     

For VM, I found I needed to install libdisplay-info2 for cosmic-comp (and you need to enable  3D acceleration (first set listen type in Display Spice to "None" and check OpenGL; then enable 3d Acceleration in "Video Virtio")

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