Encryption on installation

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Feb 12 19:37:01 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 20:38:28 +0200,
  Peter Lauri <peterlauri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been playing around with Ubuntu installation on a machine and the
> installation of Ubuntu provided an option to encrypt the partition on
> installation. Does the installation of Fedora Core 8 provide this option? I
> need to have all (except boot) encrypted as my laptop needs to be brought
> out of customers facilities.
> 
> Any ideas of this?

No but it is possible to get it to work. This is a feature in the upcoming
Fedora 9. If you aren't in a hurry you might try installing the F9 alpha
to see if it will work for you.
There is a lot of information about this at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureEncryptedFilesystems




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