Re: whole disk encryption on multi boot laptop

[D Adusumalli <asndpp () gmail com>]

Use tools like safeboot and mcafee end point encryption to achieve this.

Regards,
Durga Prasad.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:15 AM,  <securityfocus () godigitaldesigns com> wrote:
> I have performed full hdd encryption on a laptop of mine but only having ubuntu & xp. I didn't see the reason why I 
> would want to put BT3 installed on the hdd when it is meant to be on a boot-cd or I kept mine on a flashdrive. 
> However, check out BT4 they switched to debian based and it is meant for installing on the hdd or flashdrive. 
> Updating is easy just as you would with ubuntu, same debian repositories. However, I have yet to check out its 
> encryption methods.
>
> You can fully encrypt your windows partition as you have it now without reinstalling the OS with truecrypt: 
> http://www.truecrypt.org/
>
> I don't know about having full hdd encryption w/ your 3 OSs in their current state. I would recommend having XP & 
> ubuntu then possibly installing BT4 to the drive or flashdrive. I'm almost certain that you will need to reinstall 
> the ubuntu partition at least and possibly backtrack3/4
>
> With Ubuntu you can set up an encrypted home dir after the OS is installed depending on your version. But for full 
> hdd encryption you need to reinstall. Use an alternate installer disc (not "desktop CD") to manually setup encrypted 
> LVM partition.
>
> Steps outlined here: http://oei.yungchin.nl/2008/04/23/installing-ubuntu-804-with-full-disk-encryption/
>
> Remember to backup all your data before attempting any of these procedures or others you may find via Google. Again, 
> you can keep your windows partition and encrypt it fully but will need to rebuild the linux OS's.
>
> Hope this was somewhat useful. Good luck!
>
>
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