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Ken Heard wrote, in part:
Thank you both for these suggestions. Before doing a new installation I
shall try them and report back with the results.
Just in case anyone is still interested in the problems I encountered
when trying to install
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Walter Hurry wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:20:03 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Walter Hurry wrote:
I don't know what finnix is, but if it allows you to mount and access
the Debian filesystem, then here is one way:
Boot into finnix.
Become finnix's
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:50:41PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
Further to the problem described in the first post to this thread, I
have progress of a sort to report.
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At this point I entered the root password but it was not accepted. I
then -- as Gary Golden suggested -- rebooted using
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Darac Marjal wrote:
Just to clarify things, you did change the password for the root on your
installation, didn't you? That is, you didn't just change the password
for root on the live CD, which was then lost as you rebooted?
After examination of
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Since writing the last paragraph of my post earlier today:
Not only that, but also I after closing the computer and rebooting I was
unable to install *any* operating system, whether finnix from the CD or
Squeeze from the hard drive. I am now
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:25:50 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
Since writing the last paragraph of my post earlier today:
Not only that, but also I after closing the computer and rebooting I
was unable to install *any* operating system, whether finnix from the
CD or Squeeze from the hard drive. I am
Walter Hurry wrote:
I don't know what finnix is, but if it allows you to mount and access the
Debian filesystem, then here is one way:
Boot into finnix.
Become finnix's root.
Mount the Debian partition containing /etc.
Edit Debian's /etc/inittab.
Look for the line under # What to do in
Ken Heard:
At the beginning I was able to enter the passphrase and so the boot
continued. After a few weeks, during which time I was tweaking the
software to make the computer useable, through no conscious intervention
on my part the computer stopped accepting the passphrase. I would enter
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Gary Golden wrote:
Get finnix and try to mount your encrypted partition with --debug
Watch the kernel logs as well.
Have downloaded finnix-102.iso and wrote it to a CD. I hope to do what
you suggest later today. Thanks for the tip.
Ken Heard
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Gary Golden wrote:
Get finnix and try to mount your encrypted partition with --debug
Watch the kernel logs as well.
Have downloaded finnix-102.iso and wrote it to a CD. I hope to do what
you suggest later today. Thanks for the tip.
Ken Heard
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Further to the problem described in the first post to this thread, I
have progress of a sort to report.
As to inability of the computer on boot with squeeze to unlock the
BDS-home_crypt partition, I discovered that the connection to the box
from the
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As part of an installation on a desktop of squeeze I set up the swap,
/temp and /home partitions to be encrypted. The first two have random
passphrases; the /home partition however has a passphrase I created as
part of the installation.
On boot in
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