ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Chris Marusich skribis: > >> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> Chris Marusich skribis: >>> >>>> Is anyone actively working on documenting the new encrypted root stuff? >>>> If not, I'm happy to try my hand at it. I'm interested in trying to set >>>> it up on my laptop, anyway. >>> >>> I’ve added documentation in 2b5fea5ba3b07999cf198e1132ffcacbfcb7ed72. >>> >>> Please send a patch if you think of improvements that can be made. >> >> I'm happy to report that I was successful in setting up an encrypted >> root file system on my Libreboot laptop. I have to enter the passphrase >> twice, but that's no different from the normal case (without Libreboot). >> It took me multiple days to get it working, though, because each time I >> tried to run "guix system init", it took over 8 hours to finish! > > Woow, was it building stuff, or was downloading super slow? Was is a > desktop-style install? It was a desktop-style install. Many packages were built from source, even though some were downloaded via substitutes, also. It was particularly painful because I didn't know how to save and re-use the result of the first build attempt, so I'm sure I wasted a lot of time starting over and rebuilding the same packages a second time. -- Chris