[2026-01-31T05:15:31Z] big iron on his hip [2026-01-31T22:50:31Z] Dear Kiss Comunity, is exiting a bit to have foud you. You see it's my first time writing on irc. I'm planning on installing kisslinux with full disk enctyption. Today I practiced with archlinux and udb stik. I'm quite new to linux and green but I statred on my first computer with arch an WM four yars ago and I find is nice and easy. Could anny one of you like to give advice I would be very grageful. [2026-01-31T22:50:31Z] In Poland is snowy, damp and wet:) and we're happy. Yours trully, Michał [2026-01-31T22:53:19Z] I'm sorry for spelling. It is midnight and dyslexia has other then my own opinions on my writing [2026-01-31T23:24:03Z] behemoth: encryption on kiss is less fun than on arch. on arch it kinda just works, but on kiss, it requires more hands on. usually, we prefer static kernels (all modules built in), but with encryption, that might not work for you. likely, youd want to use an initramfs. you can use tinyramfs for this, as its less complex [2026-01-31T23:24:38Z] regarding having actuall full disk encryption. not sure youd be happy with it. kris_ has been messing with it some time, but never really was satisfied with it [2026-01-31T23:24:55Z] a somewhat compromise could be to encyrpt your /home. maybe / aswell. not sure [2026-01-31T23:25:19Z] sabotagelinux has some docs on installs with encryption aswell, which can be referenced [2026-01-31T23:26:10Z] i got FDE working on kiss pretty easily [2026-01-31T23:26:19Z] i can write up a doc for it at some point if you all would benefit from that [2026-01-31T23:27:17Z] it does come up from time to time, so having some proper docs on kisscommunity.org would probably be nice. so that we refer people to that instead of having my half assed suggestions about it :p [2026-01-31T23:27:54Z] faq mentions dm-mod.create for full disk encryption. might be worth looking into behemoth [2026-01-31T23:28:37Z] wow thank you [2026-01-31T23:30:13Z] kris_: did this bare any fruit for you in this? https://github.com/kiss-community/init-hooks [2026-01-31T23:30:18Z] mabey I encrypt only home folder. Something to thing about [2026-01-31T23:30:30Z] I see it was renamed to kiss-hooks, but it was actually called kiss-encryption [2026-01-31T23:30:51Z] ok [2026-01-31T23:31:10Z] behemoth: that would likely be simpler, if you want full disk encryption, by all means, go for it. but it will certainly require more of you. how much, I dunno really. [2026-01-31T23:33:33Z] but, do kisslinux have fstab? [2026-01-31T23:33:56Z] fstab is required. more or less anyway, so yes [2026-01-31T23:34:09Z] tk [2026-01-31T23:34:19Z] thank you [2026-01-31T23:34:47Z] https://github.com/cemkeylan/kiss-hook [2026-01-31T23:35:09Z] I think you can boot without it, if the kernel knows what partition root is, but I would think youd have to manually mount everything else. so it would just be massivly inconvinient :p [2026-01-31T23:35:27Z] is this what you writing about [2026-01-31T23:35:32Z] ok [2026-01-31T23:35:56Z] nice to know:) [2026-01-31T23:36:25Z] kinda, those are cems kiss-hooks though, not illiliti. maybe you have to dig into the git history from the one I linked [2026-01-31T23:36:58Z] ok [2026-01-31T23:37:40Z] now I don't know what to ask [2026-01-31T23:38:08Z] I have more then I need to raead [2026-01-31T23:38:35Z] theres lots to read about. gentoo wiki probably have som docs about it aswell :p [2026-01-31T23:38:49Z] I know [2026-01-31T23:39:03Z] but gentoo was to hard for me [2026-01-31T23:39:41Z] if youre just going to encrypt /home, maybe you dont have to mess around so much. an init-hook can likely be used. see these to in here https://github.com/kiss-community/init-hooks/tree/587f71edac7ec814e2ac39ae106f9c11bebc7180/luks [2026-01-31T23:39:50Z] gentoo is unneccessarly complex imo :p [2026-01-31T23:39:55Z] but their docs is decent [2026-01-31T23:40:27Z] I couldn't get enctyption and gentoo to work. I trided two new things at once [2026-01-31T23:42:04Z] thing the /home dir idea is good. I see how confortable in cli tommorow I'll feel. [2026-01-31T23:42:12Z] yeah encryption can cause a lot of hurdles. I remember attempting it on artix, but I think I messed ut up several times [2026-01-31T23:42:46Z] I did it on artix today [2026-01-31T23:42:49Z] if its just /home, you can probably just write a simple script to call the commands to decrypt it, enter the password, and badabombadabing youre done [2026-01-31T23:42:51Z] +1 [2026-01-31T23:43:08Z] ok [2026-01-31T23:43:55Z] It's going to be a first for me. Write a script [2026-01-31T23:44:07Z] at least a sirious one [2026-01-31T23:44:35Z] youd still need to know which commands/utilities you need, but you can manage without messing with a initramfs anyhow :p [2026-01-31T23:44:36Z] thank you [2026-01-31T23:44:41Z] are you new to shellscripting? [2026-01-31T23:44:56Z] yes