Hi, my name is Mike Petullo and I'm new to the anaconda-devel mailing list. I am interested in adding to Anaconda support for installing Linux using an loopback encrypted root filesystem. I have a bit of experience with doing this by hand as I maintain an initrd and some utilities I used to encrypt the root partition on my iBook. I also wrote a semi-related article for the August Linux Journal describing how to transparently encrypt home directories. I think these are important features for certain circumstances and would like to make it easier to implement them on a system. I have two questions for those of you who are more experiences with hacking anaconda: 1. Would the powers that be be interested in applying an encrypted root patch to the mainstream anaconda sources? 2. When working with anaconda, what is the best way to test? I don't want to create installation media each time I make a change to anaconda. Also, I would like to be able to test my changes without sacrificing a real disk partition. Is this possible? Does anaconda have some sort of test mode? -- Mike :wq
