Timothy Selivanow wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:51 +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: >> Has there been any updates to support encrypting the whole disk in >> 5.2? > > There hasn't been any built-in support until Fedora 9, so perhaps at > the earliest it would be 5.3 if at all. There are however, ways you > can implement it yourself. The biggest things you have to keep in > mind are that you need to make a change to the mkinitrd script and > then generate a new initrd image to be able to encrypt /, otherwise > you could just modify init. > > There are a number of websites that have some docs on how to do it, > here is just one that I've seen in the past: > > http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/cryptoroot-f8/ > > Thank you to everyone who replied. Tim, Thanks for the above link. Those instructions work fine on v5.2. You have to manually edit /sbin/mkinitrd but the changes are obvious enough from their patch file. Not quite whole disk encryption but a good compromise. Now just need to put this in a kickstart file to try and automate the setup. Thanks Dean