On Sun, 09 May 2010 02:06:15 -0400 Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 12:13 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote: > > On Sat, 08 May 2010 18:27:33 -0400 > > Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > > > I just got a Yeeloong netbook, and because I value my privacy > > > just as much as I value my freedom, I want to install gNS on it > > > with full-disk encryption. debian-installer can do this, usually. > > > > > > However, when I try to set a partition to be used for encryption > > > in the partitioning stage of d-i by selecting "physical partition > > > for use in encryption" and hitting enter, the installer just > > > takes me back to whatever I had selected before. > > > > > > Is this a bug, or is crypto unsupported for gNS 3/mispel? How > > > could I go about getting past whatever blockage there is so I > > > could have a fully encrypted and fully free computing experience? > > > > We don't (currently) support encrypted installs. > > ftr, if you do go that way you'll probably need to have an > > unencrypted /boot/, since i doubt pmon will support > > encrypted filesystems. > > Why is this? I couldn't find anything relevant with a few searches effort, time, knowledge. all of which can be invested into debian-installer by people wanting to use encrypted systems. kk > over the wiki. Could I set it up outside of d-i without ill effect? > > And yes, I'm aware the kernel image cannot be encrypted. I've done > this before. :-P -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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