Re: [gNewSense-users] Mipsel gNS 3 + crypto

[Ted Smith]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 16:08 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote:
> On Sun, 09 May 2010 02:06:15 -0400
> Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 12:13 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > > On Sat, 08 May 2010 18:27:33 -0400
> > > Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hey everyone,
> > > > 
> > > > I just got a Yeeloong netbook, and because I value my privacy
> > > > just as much as I value my freedom, I want to install gNS on it
> > > > with full-disk encryption. debian-installer can do this, usually.
> > > > 
> > > > However, when I try to set a partition to be used for encryption
> > > > in the partitioning stage of d-i by selecting "physical partition
> > > > for use in encryption" and hitting enter, the installer just
> > > > takes me back to whatever I had selected before.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this a bug, or is crypto unsupported for gNS 3/mispel? How
> > > > could I go about getting past whatever blockage there is so I
> > > > could have a fully encrypted and fully free computing experience?
> > > 
> > > We don't (currently) support encrypted installs.
> > > ftr, if you do go that way you'll probably need to have an
> > > unencrypted /boot/, since i doubt pmon will support
> > > encrypted filesystems.
> > 
> > Why is this? I couldn't find anything relevant with a few searches
> 
> effort, time, knowledge. all of which can be invested into
> debian-installer by people wanting to use encrypted systems.

Is this a gNS problem or an upstream problem?

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