Re: Installing F10 (from F9) on a system with encrypted partitions?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 13:48:13 +0000,
Mike <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If I do a clean in stall of F10 from the DVD iso once it is released,
are there
any known problems likely to arise and should I be able to do a straightforward
install but yet retain access to the encrypted /opt partition?
This is supposed to work. I haven't been testing encrypted installs though.
I did a yum upgrade to rawhide shortly before the alpha.
In addition is it possible during the install to get the system to
use the same
passphrase for the luks encryption for the / as well as the pre-existing /opt
partitions, and at the same time get the boot process to only ask for this
passphrase once?
The boot process saves the passwords you use (hopefully in a relatively
secure manner) and only asks you for a new one if none of the previously
supplied ones could unlock an encrypted device.
Also the swap partition is encrypted - presumably the same encryption
is possible
with the pre-existing swap partition during install?
Yes. It uses a fixed key. (You need that for suspend/resume to have a chance
of working.) In the past some people had the encrypted device swap was on,
get a random key at each boot. That mode isn't supported.