Can I install a encrypted Trisquel with the installer?
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Good evening everyone,
I read sections about encryption but I did not find the response to this question below:
- with the Trisquel installer, is it possible to install an encrypted Trisquel on a free partition?
The other partitions should not be erased or encrypted by the Trisquel installer.
In case there is already a section about it, can you help me to find it?
Thank you in advance for your kind support.
Freely yours
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For non-French speakers, I repeat my answer on the French language forum: it should be feasible with the netinstaller but the problem is to be able to start Trisquel and the existing system(s) after that, and the way to do might be different depending on the existing system(s) is/are.
There is https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/install-trisquel-windows-dual-boot-0 for the case on one non-free OS. For other OSes, it depends.
@Avron answer should be a lot easier to follow, but I found this way to do it too, and I've been using it ever since: https://askubuntu.com/questions/918021/encrypted-custom-install .
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> https://askubuntu.com/questions/918021/encrypted-custom-install
Thanks for the link. Are you using this to install two Trisquel (or Trisquel and Ubuntu) on the same disk?
Isn't it necessary to also add
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
in /etc/default/grub of both systems?
I used it to share a computer with some friends that wanted to use windows, and I didn't want them to mess with my stuff, but you could very easily use this method with any other Debian based distro.
I'm not sure if GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER is needed if you will be using the same disk for more than one OS. I my self used it in the past because I installed triquel both on the internal memory of my computer and another trisquel copy in an external SD and I wanted to GRUB to pick up both. I think they have that, so that if a malicious boot media is connected to the computer it will not be picked up by grub.
I've being thinking about that lately, since I've been wondering if it would be possible to share your computer with strangers. Probably not. But I have put a password in my bios so that usb cannot be used to boot without it, and GRUB would then be a problem if GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER is set to true.
I install Trisquel with Mate (the official ISO) and I choice encrypt all my disk in the installation.