Google sez I should be able to install an encrypted CentOS 5.5 system from the get-go, but there wasn't the appropriate ticky-box in the text installer. It's there in the GUI installer (boo, hiss, requiring a GUI when I have to install remote in places like Panama), but you can't create a custom disk layout, you HAVE to take the default and then edit it. And LVM seems to be mandated... *sigh*
I haven't messed with Deb or Ubuntu yet, though I understand you can encrypt in those installers, too, but still. The deprecation of the text interface is Not Cool... it will be interesting to see what the anaconda_ks.cfg turns out to be. If I can do this *once* and come up with a working kickstart that I don't have to worry about, that will be marginally palatable, but still. When I have to configure stuff on the other end of what in some cases can be a 56k frame relay, I don't wanna have to mouse around with it! (The fact that HP seems to have a similar bias in configuring the RAID arrays is beyond the scope of this article.) Sign me, Grumpy Old Man (get off my lawn! :)
