On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 15:16 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: > On 10/05/2009 03:04 PM, James Laska wrote: > > Hey Robert, > > > > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:47 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: > > > >> To make it clearer what I really want: I already have a Fedora 12 system > >> up and running but it does not appear to be encrypted. > >> > >> If I follow the instructions below (at > >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html/apcs04.html ) > >> > >> will my Fedora 12 system be preserved, or will it be destroyed in the > >> encryption process? I get the feeling the answer is it will be destroyed > >> -- I need to encrypt a filesystem first and then install Fedora 12 > >> within that. > >> > > Good question, sorry if that wasn't clear. To my understanding, you > > cannot encrypt an already unencrypted partition. I believe you'd need > > to back-up the data to another location, and then follow the procedures > > in the install-guide (either during anaconda or from an already > > installed system). > > > > Thanks, > > James > > > > Hey James, > > I did think this might be the case. I might try another (newer) nightly > compose and see if I can get the encryption to work. Only this time I'll > install the live system only and not add or subtract software to it > until I'm sure the important basics are working. I really like having > encryption to guard my privacy. > > During yesterday's install attempt, Anaconda does not seem to have > encrypted my file system as part of the installation process, but this > might be because I was trying to replace an existing Fedora 12 system > with a brand new one and the older system was encrypted, and perhaps > that confuses Anaconda. It certainly should honor your partitioning requests. If you have any luck reproducing the issue, any screenshots (and log files from the install '/tmp/*log*') would help identify the root cause. Thanks for testing! James
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