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



On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:22:23PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> 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.

Ah, fine :-)

> > 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

Hmm, do you mean "support for keys-on-removable-devices"?  AFAIU, this
is something different.



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