Re: [gNewSense-users] Mipsel gNS 3 + crypto

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 09 May 2010 03:11:56 -0400
Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 16:08 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > On Sun, 09 May 2010 02:06:15 -0400
> > Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 12:13 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 08 May 2010 18:27:33 -0400
> > > > Ted Smith <address@hidden> 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.
> 
> Is this a gNS problem or an upstream problem?

upstream d-i supports crypted filesystems, but i don't know if that was
added after the version we are using was frozen off or not. when we
rebase we may gain that ability by default, but i'm not spending my
energy to make it happen yet.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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