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hansencomputers
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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject: BLAG 90K "Encrypt System" |
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I'm setting up BLAG 90K on a friend's system. At the partition selection stage, I see an option called "Encrypt System". What does this do for me? Does it add security?
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Mike
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jebba
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: BLAG 90K "Encrypt System" |
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| hansencomputers wrote: | | I'm setting up BLAG 90K on a friend's system. At the partition selection stage, I see an option called "Encrypt System". What does this do for me? |
It encrypts the partition so it can't be read without a password. Like if you boot up from a "rescue" CD you won't be able to read it without the password because it will be all encrypted. Each time you boot up you have to enter a password to read it.
| hansencomputers wrote: | | Does it add security? |
In theory. I use it, but not their setup (I do an older method i set up you definitely don't want to do). Security can go wrong very easily though. Hard to even estimate "how secure" it is....
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hansencomputers
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Jeff, and on a possibly related note. My current system, running BLAG 70K for some time now, I can not access my hard drive when running another version of Linux from a live CD (like Puppy). Was this an option in 70K (the Encrypt)? Maybe I used it and forgot about it?
Mike
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jebba
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| hansencomputers wrote: | | Thanks Jeff, and on a possibly related note. My current system, running BLAG 70K for some time now, I can not access my hard drive when running another version of Linux from a live CD (like Puppy). Was this an option in 70K (the Encrypt)? Maybe I used it and forgot about it? |
It would be prompting you for a password each time at boot, if so (besides the user password--it comes up very early in boot process).
Perhaps you set them up with LVM and puppy can't handle that, or you need to use those options. I should have banished LVM perhaps, but it is default upstream.
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hansencomputers
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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I'm gearing up to make the change to 90K, which will be a fresh install.
I have some housekeeping to get done first, and I have a few issues. For one, I need to be able to mount an internal hard drive (PATA type and in a front load HD tray). I have not been able to mount this HD with BLAG, probably due to my experiments with Bastille.
Having this problem, I would otherwise simply use Puppy and get the files transfered, but that doesn't work either.
It's no big deal, I can also plug into a USB port, and get this done, but I like to learn from problems like this.
Mike
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