How to install Ubuntu 14.04 on encrypted MBR partitions | Linux Today

How to install Ubuntu 14.04 on encrypted MBR partitions

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May 28, 2014

The next partition will be used as the main (root) partition, but you won’t be able to specify the mount point here. You do, however, need to specify enough disk space to install and run the system. Then from the ???Use as??? menu, select physical volume for encryption. Then specify and confirm an encryption passphrase in the fields that appear. OK

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