What would you do ?
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I'm having a dilemma regarding what os to use on a laptop that doesn't connect to the internet and full disk encryption is imperative.
My piece of junk laptop fails to connect to the wired network in both Trisquel and Ubuntu live so a netinstall is impossible as far as I know; and my only option was to "downgrade" my freedom on the laptop to Ubuntu 12.10 because of the installer option to use full disk encryption.
I don't use proprietary software anyway (not even mono), nor the Trisquel desktop, so my biggest issue I assume it would be the Ubuntu kernel blobs.
Other than installing linux-libre and removing possibly installed proprietary software as described in the "Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without reinstalling" guide; what other options do I have ?
You could install Trisquel via CD/DVD, then download the .deb packages you need from Trisquel's repository from another computer and install them.
Trisquel should come with an option to do disk-encryption anyway. It's a little more complicated than the Ubuntu installer though.
One other solution (not the best but can be considered to) is to you to download the 6.0 alpha version of trisquel that should be available with the same option as Ubuntu since it its based on the 12.04 (I'm pretty sure 12.04 already has this version), then you can simply update until the "Final" version is out and you will have the normal full version.
You can find it here : http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/?C=M;O=D