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

[John Gruenenfelder]

Thank you.  This was exactly the information I've been looking for.  Time
to put Mint on my laptop.

-- John Gruenenfelder

On Nov 28, 2011 12:10 AM, "Jim March" <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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