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Re: How to create crypted partition in d-i?



On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:13:19PM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> BTW: I tried crypted root (with /boot on separate partition) and it
> seems to work OK.  Is this already supported or have I just not seen
> the problems yet?

It is fully supported and is actually the default setting when "Guided -
use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM" is selected.

> One more interesting improvement would be to put /boot onto an USB
> stick.  Are there any problems to expect with such a setup?  For
> example, one might (accidentally) run "apt-get upgrade" without
> mounted /boot partition.

This is in our plans for Lenny, see at the bottom of the following page:
  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/LennyGoals

Cheers,
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Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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