24th September 2016, 14:55
Hi. Oh fabulous, your new Installer worked nicely, giving me no black screen anymore but instead the proper stable Plasma desktop. Furthermore, using this fixed Installer for a virgin installation now does allow me to encrypt /home & have a working system post-reboot, & if upgrading an existing system already containing an encrypted /home with data to Maui, both the encryption & the data were preserved. This is excellent -- MANY THANKS!
One unexpected disappointment was that as well as separate /home i also use a separate /opt partition, in which various pgms were installed in my old VM before upgrading to Maui. All these pgms vanished from /opt once Maui had replaced Mint, despite me telling the Installer to reuse /opt but NOT format it. I had thus expected the pgms to have survived, but they did not. Is that correct & normal behaviour, or might the new Installer have a problem?
Finally, with the ISO PGP signature issue, i remain apprehensive about proceeding to now install Maui in my real Tower [not just VMs as up to now]. What if your downloads page were to be hacked, & both the ISO & the hash files replaced with bad ones... how could i possibly know? Remember that earlier this year the Mint site was hacked & one ISO was compromised. Are you able to reassure me why my concern here is unnecessary?
One unexpected disappointment was that as well as separate /home i also use a separate /opt partition, in which various pgms were installed in my old VM before upgrading to Maui. All these pgms vanished from /opt once Maui had replaced Mint, despite me telling the Installer to reuse /opt but NOT format it. I had thus expected the pgms to have survived, but they did not. Is that correct & normal behaviour, or might the new Installer have a problem?
Finally, with the ISO PGP signature issue, i remain apprehensive about proceeding to now install Maui in my real Tower [not just VMs as up to now]. What if your downloads page were to be hacked, & both the ISO & the hash files replaced with bad ones... how could i possibly know? Remember that earlier this year the Mint site was hacked & one ISO was compromised. Are you able to reassure me why my concern here is unnecessary?
