On 11.09.2013 19:03, The Doctor wrote:
On 09/11/2013 02:33 AM, Moon Jones wrote:
Yes, Tails seems to be the solution here as well. It has a very
elegant way of handling this with its encrypted storage. But, in
this case, it's rather limited upgrade-wise.
In what sense?
Tails is wonderfuly maid for its purpose. On the outside all drives look
the same. Same space for the distribution and upgrades and the rest is
one large encrypted space. So the packs added are put inside the
encrypted drive. I'd say the libs and executables are fine out in clear,
but the configs should be on the encrypted drive. Along with something
like tripwire data, or at least some fingerprints and a file list to
confirm the libs haven't turn against you overnight.
At least insofar as being able to access the encrypted storage
partition of a USB install of TAILS is concerned, so long as you don't
repartition the device it should just work. I've tested this a few
times (upgrading a USB key from TAILS v0.19 to TAILS v0.20) and the
data's been accessible every time.
Yes. I did the same upgrade and it worked in an instant. I was so happy
everything was ok. If I recall well, only three upgrades can be done,
than I'll have to migrate the data by hand. Anyway, going from 0.19 to
0.20 cured some unexplained hangups that persist in Debian 7.0 and 7.0.1.
Only that on an older than Tails 0.17 I fired up Synaptic and did some
«cleanup», removing everything I did not want. Than I put some software
I needed. And in the end I have broken the whole distro. I did nothing
exotic. I have not add foreign repositories. And it did not work. So I'm
trying to avoid customising Tails for every day use.
Were you referring to something else (namely, potentially needing to
repartition the device if the distro grows too large to be accomodated
by previous installs)?
I was thinking for my everyday system portable from one computer to
another without touching the installed hard drive. The config is
different. And I'm afraid to break stuff.
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