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

[Jim March]

Almost forgot!  You need a working Internet connection of some sort
when running the LiveCD, before you start the script.  This can get
tricky if you have one of the WiFi adapters that needs firmware
downloaded and a reboot, like my Broadcom.  I got online via my
cellphone and a USB tether instead.  The script has to go fetch the
pieces needed to get encryption running after the LiveCD installer
finishes.

Also: use "Disk Utility" (present on the LiveCD) to ID your install
drive, in my case /dev/sda - you don't ID a partition to install to,
just a drive.

Jim

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:52 PM, John Gruenenfelder
<jetpackjohn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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