diff --git a/debootstrap.sh b/debootstrap.sh
index 126a032..fe4b15e 100755
--- a/debootstrap.sh
+++ b/debootstrap.sh
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ apt-get -y install mdadm btrfs-tools
 
 "./parted/${1}.sh" # "returns" /dev/md0 as root device
 
-read md0pwd
+echo -n 'Enter luks password: '
+read -s md0pwd
 echo -n $md0pwd | cryptsetup -q luksFormat /dev/md0
 unset md0pwd
+
 cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/md0 md0-unlocked
 
 mkfs.btrfs /dev/mapper/md0-unlocked
@@ -23,6 +25,6 @@ mount -t sysfs none /mnt/md0-unlocked/sys
 mount -o bind /dev /mnt/md0-unlocked/dev
 
 cp docker.key /mnt/md0-unlocked/docker.key
-cp post-debootstrap-installer.sh /mnt/md0-unlocked/post-debootstrap-installer.sh
+cp -a post-debootstrap-installer.sh /mnt/md0-unlocked/post-debootstrap-installer.sh
 
 chroot /mnt/md0-unlocked /post-debootstrap-installer.sh
diff --git a/post-debootstrap-installer.sh b/post-debootstrap-installer.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index aef4467..683772a
--- a/post-debootstrap-installer.sh
+++ b/post-debootstrap-installer.sh
@@ -5,12 +5,18 @@ set -e
 echo 'console-setup console-setup/charmap47 select UTF-8' | debconf-set-selections
 echo 'keyboard-configuration keyboard-configuration/variant select English (US)' | debconf-set-selections
 echo 'keyboard-configuration kekeyboard-configuration keyboard-configuration/layout select English (US)' | debconf-set-selections
+echo 'locales locales/default_environment_locale select en_US.UTF-8' | debconf-set-selections
+echo 'locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' | debconf-set-selections
 
+apt-get -y install locales
+
+# add docker key
 apt-get -y install gnupg2
 apt-key add docker.key
+apt-get -y --purge autoremove gnupg2
+
 echo 'deb https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch stable' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
 apt-get update
-apt-get -y --purge autoremove gnupg2
 
 apt-get -y install \
     systemd \