Some starting documents

[Teddy Hogeborn]

Zenny <garbytrash at gmail.com> writes:

> I happen to see your nice application just today and feel like
> deploying. Unfortunately I am getting errors while installing
> mados-client in embedded debian squeeze (voyage linux actually).
>
> 1) gpg: WARNING: some OpenPGP programs can't handle a DSA key with
> this digest size
>
> I know of this error maybe it is run on a i386 machine.

No; it happens on all platforms, but it is a harmless warning concerning
a use case which doesn't apply for Mandos.

> 2) cryptsetup: WARNING: could not determine root device from /etc/fstab
>
> which looks like:
> root at voyage:~# cat /etc/fstab
> #/dev/hda1       /       ext2    defaults,noatime,rw     0       0
> proc            /proc   proc    defaults                0       0
> tmpfs 			/tmp 	tmpfs 	nosuid,nodev 			0 		0
> #tmpfs           /rw     tmpfs   defaults,size=32M        0       0

You don't have a root file system at all?  What?  I am confused.

> Appreciate if there is any pointers! Is there any tutorials on how to
> deploy mandos? FYI, I am trying to share keys between two mandos
> servers. Thanks!

Step 1: Install Debian (or derivative) using full-disk encryption.

Step 2: Install the Mandos packages and read the README.Debian files in
/usr/share/doc/<package>.

/Teddy Hogeborn