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

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 10 May 2010 12:50:51 -0400
Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 16:51 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > 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.

> > > > > > 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.

> > 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.
> 
> I'm willing to bottom-line this, depending on what are we talking
> here - a preseed option, or modifications to something deeper and more
> involved?
> 
> Where can I get more information about this? Should I be looking into
> d-i, or debian/mipsel?

Perhaps comparing our d-i source and debian 5's, but I've never touched
it, so i can't be a whole lot of help I'm afraid.

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