Hello Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 15:56 schrieb Venkat Manakkal: > On 01/28/2006 09:19 AM, Leo Bogert wrote: > | 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. It does. Take a look at cdebootstrap. fup2 debian-users Keep smiling yanosz - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
