[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Re: Status of partman-crypto

[Frans Pop]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 17:22, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> the keyfiles are provides through the filesystem. i may store a key in
> /etc/keys/mykey. or i can store it on a usbstick, flashcard, cdrom,
> floppy, whatever. cryptsetup currently has no facilities to support
> removable media, but theoretically all this is possible.

If you're going to consider putting keys needed to mount the root 
filesystem on removable media during installation, please keep in mind 
that that would mean that the drivers for the removable media will need 
to be included on the initrd that is generated by base-installer.
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