not active

[rodger ellis]

Max

Thanks for your post.

I have been useing LUKS to date.
but await the work you are to complete.

rodger
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:24:17 +0200
Von: Max Vozeler <max at nusquama.org>
An: rodger ellis <rellis at gmx.net>
CC: pkg-loop-aes-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org
Betreff: Re: not active

> Hi Rodger, Hi James,
> 
> sorry for chiming in so late, I hope my reply is still useful
> to you. For the past four weeks I've been sitting on a bicycle
> riding across Portugal with no email access :-)
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:42:31AM +0200, rodger ellis wrote:
> > James
> > 
> > Thanks for your post/mail\
> > Here is what I have at the moment 
> > your last post/mail has me lost.
> > 
> > I think that if you might explain again 
> > 
> > 
> > Here is where i am at the moment see below
> > and when I save this to disk I am asked for
> > root partition/mount point
> > 
> > 1 primary  501.7mb F ext3  /boot
> > 2 primary  1.4gb   K crypto not active
> > 3 primary  9.0gb   K crypto not active
> > pri/log FREE SPACE 2gb
> 
> Encrypting the root partition ("/") in unfortunately not 
> yet possible using loop-AES and current versions of the Debian
> installer. The support is ready for the most parts, it is just
> that I have been lacking time to take care of it and finish
> integration of the missing pieces so far, for which I'm a bit
> sorry because it leaves good work unused :-( But I will take
> care of it soon, promised :-)
> 
> Regarding the installer: The screen above shows that you
> have configured two encrypted partitions using loop-AES.
> The "not active" string shows because those partitions are not
> committed to disk yet. This is similar to setting up LVM or 
> RAID volumes; You first configure them, them activate them.
> The required step is "Configure encrypted volumes" from the
> partman menu (it should be somewhere near the top of the screen).
> Choosing this item will ask for the respective passphrases and
> take care of generating the keyfiles, if required.
> 
> After this step, the screen should show another "disk" along
> with your physical disk, which is the actual encrypted loop
> device. You can create a filesystem in it and configure it
> for use on a particular mountpoint, e.g. /home. You can then
> finish partitioning and the installer will continue setting up
> the required things for configuring the encryption in the
> installed system. Just note that this is not yet possible to do
> with the root partition; I'm not sure offhand about /usr, but
> others should be possible with no problems.
> 
> 	Max

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