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Thanks for the report Julien! It would be nice if these use-cases were better integrated with the installation process. I'm sure it will get there someday...

Well, I've never seen that error before. In any case, maybe these notes will help you recover. These notes are meant for reinstalling an OS like Mint into an already-existing LUKS/LVM container. ...

Tuliouel, I'm not sure of the scenario where one would want to use an encrypted user directory given that one is also using whole disk encryption. Unless I'm misunderstanding how the encrypted user...

Ah, now I see in your previous reply that you are asking me to move my tutorial to one of the wikis so that I can edit it. Maybe I'll get around to it one of these days...

Lisati, thanks for your reply.

So, if I want to update my post, what are my choices? In this case, I need to add more discussion around a particular point in my original post. It seems like the...

I'm not sure what you mean. The original post of mine that I want to edit is a few years old. Why can't I edit it? I have done so in the past, but I can't do so now.

I have a thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1205372 in which, although I started the thread and I am logged in, I cannot edit my original post nor any of my posts from 2012 or earlier. ...

From http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2077346:


Ubuntu no longer has an alternate install CD but the other versions still do. You can get Lubuntu's alternate CD and the install the...

If you've set things up properly, you should be able to remove the symlink, restart firefox, and get a failure message from the test site. Then, stop firefox, restore the symlink, restart firefox,...

Thanks, Lampi! I figured something like that was going on. BTW, how did you figure out the exact package name to use in your commands? Also, do you know of any way to take a checkpoint before...

Or maybe fix the error message to indicate that:



Here's how to find how many posts you have made, and
If you're below 50, this is expected behavior, due to a policy change made in Aug 2011,...

But if the older packages have been removed, then how does Lampi's post (#5 above) work?

Well, I got things working by manually loading the Oracle JRE tar.gz, but I'd prefer the Canonical packages, if I could get that to work. My understanding is that the commands given by Lampi should...

Thanks for your quick reply. I read the post you linked and I understand the reason, but perhaps it would have been somewhat nicer (to existing users) to grandfather in all the existing users when...

For some reason beyond me, I can't seem to be able to edit my own details page and fix the (obsolete) version of Ubuntu that it automatically displays next to my posts. This seems very strange?!? I...

Sounds like this is what I want. However, I'm on Maverick and:


$ sudo aptitude install sun-java6-bin=6.29-1maverick1
Unable to find a version "6.29-1maverick1" for the package...

On my current system:

$ ls -l /dev/vg1/lvroot /dev/mapper/vg1-lvroot /dev/dm-2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 2 Nov 17 20:03 /dev/dm-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 17 20:03...

I would suggest that you probably don't need an encrypted home directory, if you already are using encrypted LUKS volumes. The primary use case (in my opinion) for these encrypted directories and...

IMHO, directory-level encryption is inadequate for a laptop that has sensitive data on it (that you would be worried about if your laptop was stolen). For example, swap and /tmp will not be...

Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with encrypted home directories, since it's not a useful feature in a single-user, fully-encrypted installation (such as a laptop). Maybe someone else will...

Radiobuzzer,

Sorry, but I don't know the solution to your hibernation issue. The method I showed (above) is pretty standard for creating a fully-encrypted installation. The tricky part is...

Steve,

I don't have "Disk Utility" show up in my version (currently running 9.04), but I'd guess that it does something similar to what my command lines do.

I test all these commands on a...

That makes sense to me, because my wireless was recognized during the install. It's only after the install that it doesn't work.

Thanks for the reply, Pure. Here is the output (BTW, apparently lshw should be run with sudo):



$ sudo lshw -c network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product:...

During the 10.04 Lucid install, my wireless is detected and DHCP is setup. (Wireless works perfectly in 9.04 Jaunty that I just tried from the live CD). But after the 10.04 install, Network Manager...