Re: Encrypted root partition

[Chris Marusich]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> Is anyone actively working on documenting the new encrypted root stuff?
>>>> If not, I'm happy to try my hand at it.  I'm interested in trying to set
>>>> it up on my laptop, anyway.
>>>
>>> I’ve added documentation in 2b5fea5ba3b07999cf198e1132ffcacbfcb7ed72.
>>>
>>> Please send a patch if you think of improvements that can be made.
>>
>> I'm happy to report that I was successful in setting up an encrypted
>> root file system on my Libreboot laptop.  I have to enter the passphrase
>> twice, but that's no different from the normal case (without Libreboot).
>> It took me multiple days to get it working, though, because each time I
>> tried to run "guix system init", it took over 8 hours to finish!
>
> Woow, was it building stuff, or was downloading super slow?  Was is a
> desktop-style install?

It was a desktop-style install.  Many packages were built from source,
even though some were downloaded via substitutes, also.  It was
particularly painful because I didn't know how to save and re-use the
result of the first build attempt, so I'm sure I wasted a lot of time
starting over and rebuilding the same packages a second time.

-- 
Chris

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