Setting up encrypted Laptop -- Follow up

[Richard Wilson]

All,

I have found an article that outlines more or less exactly what I want
to do at http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/cryptoroot-f8/ -- it
outlines how to install Fedora 8 with only an unencrypted /boot
partition.  In the instructions though, it uses an option that can only
be done using the graphic installer, which, so far, I haven't gotten to
work.

In the installer I am editing the vmlinuz parms and adding "nohz=off
nolapic" without those, the install on my Dell Latitude D810 hangs  when
it says "running /sbin/loader".  With those parms it boots the install
successfully but displays vertical gray bars right after it
"successfully" starts the X server...

I tried adding "vga=733" to tell it to try a 1024x768 display, but that
didn't work either.  I am using the flat panel built into the laptop
with the ATI Radeon built-in video controller... I may have to switch to
using a CRT for teh install.  

Fedora 8 runs fine on this hardware -- I had it up and running before I
got ordered to encrypt (or be forced to run only Windows).  I used the
text based installer last time.

Again, thanks in advance for any insights into this.

Richard Wilson
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On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 08:10 -0700, chip33az at netscape.net wrote:
> Richard Wilson wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I am setting up my laptop to be as encrypted as possible, and I'm
> > leaning towards using LUKS partitions to do the work.  Is it possible to
> > only have an unencrypted /boot and have everything else encrypted?  From
> > what I found on the 'net so far, that may not be possible.
> >
> > I have experimented with Truecrypt as well and that is a decent
> > alternative.  Any opinions as to which is "better"?
> >
> > Any full disk encryption tools out there that are Linux compatible?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Richard Wilson
> > relw at mchsi dot com
> >
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> This is exactly what I did.  On my PC, I used Gutsy and on my laptop I 
> used Etch.  I kind of flip-flop between the two.
> 
> If you use the Gutsy alternative disc, you can set up encryption.
> 
> What I typically do is have the /boot as ext3, then use the rest of the 
> drive partitioned for encryption.  I then use LVM to break the partition 
> into two sections, swap and root (I could do more).  I then install as 
> usual.  Works great.
> 
> For my backup, I use a little thumb drive that was encrypted with 
> TrueCrypt.  They have an installer for Ubuntu, but for Etch one has to 
> compile it.  There are instructions in their forums about this.  Not too 
> difficult.  I like their new front-end for it.
> 
>  From what I have heard the new Fedora 9 will over full drive encryption 
> as well.
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