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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Alokat wrote:
> is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation manually?

I don't believe the current installer knows about HD encryption.  Do it after the install by following the fine documentation in the handbook:

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-encrypting.html

Regards,
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-Chuck