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I tried installing OpenBSD a few times and could never get past partitioning and encrypting my disk. Yes, I could probably have gotten it to work if I was willi

I tried installing OpenBSD a few times and could never get past partitioning and encrypting my disk. Yes, I could probably have gotten it to work if I was willing to fiddle with it/read some blog posts. But I'd rather just run Linux :)

anthk 4y ago
Heh, compared to Linux encrypting a disk was dumb easy. Once you set the bioctl devices, you usually chose sd1 or sd2 depending on the layout and literally apply the same instructions af it was sd0. Done. With Linux, crypsetup and lvm I wanted to kill myself.
- e12e 4y ago
  > With Linux, crypsetup and lvm I wanted to kill myself. With what, Linux from scratch or something? Eg: Debian has had "encrypt disk" in the installer for a long time. Granted, if you want a super custom setup - it's trickier - but then it kind of is inherently more complex.
  - anthk 4y ago
    Slackware, Arch, and most non-Debian and Fedora based distros. And, even on Debian/Fedora derivs, on troubleshooting, encrypting HD drives under GNU/Linux has always been hell.
    - 2b3a51 4y ago
      Slackware is pretty manual I admit. The installer does not actually provide an automatic partitioning scheme at all, you boot from the installation media, set the keyboard, and drop into a root shell and run fdisk/cfdisk on the fixed disk you want to install to and set up your partitions as you want. That is for any installation, unencrypted or encrypted. http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-15.0/README_CRYPT.TXT http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-15.0/README_CRYPT.... Using an lvm set up is about half way through the document above. These docs come on the installation media. Same kind of idea as with OpenBSD - partition hard drive so small partition just to boot off then the rest of the disk to house encrypted lvms with swap, home, root whatever. Then run the 'setup' program as usual to actually install to your lvms. Other distributions (e.g. RHEL/Debian based) make it a push button exercise.
prmoustache 4y ago
Why would you read blog posts instead of the FAQ on openbsd.org? https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html

anthk 4y ago

Heh, compared to Linux encrypting a disk was dumb easy. Once you set the bioctl devices, you usually chose sd1 or sd2 depending on the layout and literally apply the same instructions af it was sd0. Done. With Linux, crypsetup and lvm I wanted to kill myself.

e12e 4y ago
> With Linux, crypsetup and lvm I wanted to kill myself. With what, Linux from scratch or something? Eg: Debian has had "encrypt disk" in the installer for a long time. Granted, if you want a super custom setup - it's trickier - but then it kind of is inherently more complex.
- anthk 4y ago
  Slackware, Arch, and most non-Debian and Fedora based distros. And, even on Debian/Fedora derivs, on troubleshooting, encrypting HD drives under GNU/Linux has always been hell.
  - 2b3a51 4y ago
    Slackware is pretty manual I admit. The installer does not actually provide an automatic partitioning scheme at all, you boot from the installation media, set the keyboard, and drop into a root shell and run fdisk/cfdisk on the fixed disk you want to install to and set up your partitions as you want. That is for any installation, unencrypted or encrypted. http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-15.0/README_CRYPT.TXT http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-15.0/README_CRYPT.... Using an lvm set up is about half way through the document above. These docs come on the installation media. Same kind of idea as with OpenBSD - partition hard drive so small partition just to boot off then the rest of the disk to house encrypted lvms with swap, home, root whatever. Then run the 'setup' program as usual to actually install to your lvms. Other distributions (e.g. RHEL/Debian based) make it a push button exercise.

prmoustache 4y ago

Why would you read blog posts instead of the FAQ on openbsd.org? https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html