On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:35:53PM +0100, Daniel Tryba wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > Does this seem like a workable/wise plan or here there be dragons? Is > > there any reason to think that 20 GB is too small for a fully installed > > workstation including swap and /tmp (everything but /home)? > > Sounds sane, except for the encrypted stuff this resembles my setup, > 20Gb is more then enough (I personally have something like 7Gb used from > the max 24Gb for base (about half of it in the /usr/local/ hierarchy)). > > On the last reinstall of a machine (debinstaller for x86) a couple of > months ago I tried the encypted LVM stuff but it didn't appear to work > out of the box (and I was to lame to spend some time to get is working) > though. > > Encrypted swap with a new generated key (never stored) for each reboot > sound interesting. Could you share your experiences if you have this > running? >
I did the install using RC1 hd-media with the netinst.iso on the USB stick too using amd64 on my athlon box. It went very well. Since the encrypted swap is on an LVM which is on a raid1 I got a warning that this is too new to know for shure that it is secure but I went with this anyway. It works just fine out of the box. I went with a 64 MB raid1 /boot, a 16 GB raid1/lvm main setup, with the remainder of the drive (64 GB) plain lvm for /home. I'm not ready to start video editing so I didn't make a striped editing partition. I'm thinking that with Etch frozen, it won't be long before its stable. Rather than installing everything now over my dial-up, I may just wait for Etch to be stable. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
