Setting up encryption during installation

[Allan Aguilar]

El 10/06/11 00:57, Amichai Rotman escribió:
> [...] 1. Install 11.04 instead - is it stable enough for a netbook
> used for work ? 2. I'd like to encrypt the whole drive during
> installation, not only my /home partition, I thought of creating the
> following map: A root (/) partition for the system, a /home partition
> for my files and a swap partition. Is it even possible to encrypt the
> root and swap partitions? [...]

Hello, Amichai:

I use a netbook for work, and I have tested on it Kubuntu 10.04, 10.10
and 11.04; but I prefer 10.04 because of its stability.  I you really
need (or want) to have an updated version of a specific application
(like Chromium or LyX), you may add other repositories from Launchpad
[1] or another source [2].

   You can't encrypt /boot, so you should have it on a separate
partition (perhaps of 250 MiB).  But you can encrypt / from a Text
Install or Netinstall: install Ubuntu in expert mode and when you have
to partitionate de hard drive, choose LVM encrypted partitions.  It
worked for me (I also like to encrypt my hard drive) in Kubuntu 10.04 on
/ and /home (not on swap).

   Good luck!

[1] https://launchpad.net/
[2] http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/
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