Hi,

On my old installs of SLED 10 I was able to do a custom partition setup and select to encrypt a partition (great for laptop security)

On a fresh load of SLED 10 SP1, I see no such option but read about encryption as a new feature of SP1. Is it standard now without selecting anything?

Thanks,
Paul

As I remember you must Setup an Encrypted Partition During Installation at which time you set the password to unlock it for use. This would be an advanced setup where you modify the default partitioning manually. You can use the YaST partitioning program to also do this after you have installed SLED, but not to the partition you have SuSE loaded on or anything else you want to keep past setting up the encryption. You would need to backup files on any existing partition you wanted to encrypt and restore the data after the encrypted partition was created.

Thank You,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, as it turns out it's in the Advanced Settings as mentioned, like I kind of remembered....... however......

I found a link I used before here;
http://www.novell.com/documentation/...s_y2_part_inst

that spells out how to create an encrypted partition AFTER an install on a "Running System" I had done this before.

Now, in SP1 this procedure is BROKEN ! I confirmed it with Novell and they are supposed to be changing this Doc. I formatted my /home after the install and on reboot, it can't mount it and your hosed! I destroyed 2 loads of SP1 before I figured this out.

Do it DURING the install and your set. (always a good idea to protect customer data on Laptops)

Hasta!