On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 23:58 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > Okay, this blows. (Sorry for the California term, but it is all I can > think of.) > > After several hours of installing 10.3 on my laptop followed by > terrible frustration and then several hours of installing 10.2 on my > laptop, I've decided I need to downgrade to Vista. > > Unfortunately, the laptop must be encrypted. There is no other option, > since it is a business laptop. > > >From what I can tell - I had a perfectly working laptop on Thursday. > Yesterday I took it upon myself to upgrade to 10.3 and encrypt the > home partition. Doing so caused numerous issues, mostly with locking > up the screen and/or system randomly. > > I decided today to do a fresh install of 10.2 - which was working fine > - on the system with an encrypted home partition. > > Same issues. System will lock up unexpectedly after either a few > minutes or after an hour. > > I can only guess that the encryption is causing the issue. > > Unless anyone has further suggestions, it appears I need to downgrade > to Vista (which came with the laptop) and bite the bullet. > > Ideas?
Having followed your discussion on encrypting partitions, I was actually wondering if you might not just need to fake a partition in a file, encrypt the fake partition, and only mount that when needed? I already have 10.3 on my laptop, and running smooth enough, so I was pondering doing this for the stuff I need kept safe. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
