[Tfug] Linux Mint 12 with whole disk encryption - just got it running...

[Jim March]

Folks,

The instructions here:

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/344

...work, but be careful.  It requires you to run a separate root and
/home partition setup, so plot out how you want to break it up
beforehand.  Also you REALLY need to pay attention with this bad boy,
because if you reboot when the Linux Mint installer tells you to
you've blown it and it's start over time - because you won't have the
rest of the script finish in the terminal window which, among other
things, automatically connects to the new build, chroots into it and
loads the encryption packages it needs to boot!

If you follow those directions though, enter your partition sizes
properly in MEGABYTES instead of gigs, it does work.  Functions the
same as Ubuntu's opening encryption splash screen except for some
reason it doesn't put dots in as you type your password.  No biggie.

Jim