Hi, I just built a 600 GB (3x 300GB RAID5) Fileserver which I want to be full-disk-encrypted with Debian and loop-AES. (This already shows you that I like loop-AES very much ;) Unfortunately, it's been two or three years since I last set up a full-disk-encrypted box with loop-AES. Back then I was using Slackware. As far as I remember, I booted an already present linux system with the destination disk attachted, created the partitions on the destination disk, encrypted them and then used the ability of the Slackware setup to install slackware from within a running linux environment. Thus, the installation was directly written encrypted to disk, and after installing I just had to fix up the boot partition to support loop-AES with a custom kernel. Now, as far as I know, Debian does not support being installed from within a running linux. Plus, the fact that I want RAID5 _and_ loop-AES makes it more complicated. My question to you is: Can anyone hint me out on some Website which explains an approach for doing this easily? What I want is: - NO unencrypted data being written to the disk-array, that would not be clean enough :) I.e. I dont want to install debian first and encrypt after installing. - If I'm right it would be better to do AES on RAID5 instead of RAID5 on three loop-AES devices. Thanks for your help, Leo - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
