Installed Q4OS over encrypted distribution

DricC · 2025-09-17 21:30

I had Aeon Linux installed and installed Q4OS over it.
Aeon had encryption setup. I still have my passphrase.
Now in Q4OS Andromeda, my disk is still encrypted, of course.
But when I enter my passphrase, it doesn't do anything.
What do you suggest I do?
I heard something about Aeon using something called LUKS for encryption.
I have no personal data on this pc. so I'm not worried. I'm just playing with distros and learning. nothing to loose.

Last edited by DricC (2025-09-17 21:30)

q4osteam · 2025-09-17 21:34

Install packages "keyutils cryptsetup cryptsetup-bin cryptsetup-initramfs" and reboot.

DricC · 2025-09-17 22:00

Installed and restarted!
But my passphrase is rejected. no idea. I'm quite unexperienced

q4osteam · 2025-09-17 22:12

You could follow this one https://askubuntu.com/questions/63594/m … mmand-line

DricC · 2025-09-18 12:20

Thanks. Before I do that, one question: given that I have no data on this pc that I need to keep, is there a way to just do a fresh install, but installing over both of my drives this time? I remember having to choose my drive in the partitioning step during installation, therefore Q4OS installed only on the drive I chose and left the other drive as it was.
I don't need encrypting. The previous distro I had installed had it built in but I don't need it.

Last edited by DricC (2025-09-18 12:36)

q4osteam · 2025-09-18 13:27

DricC wrote:

... but installing over both of my drives

Do you want to install Q4OS over multiple physical disks? If so, it is possible, but you will need to install using the Q4OS "install-cd" and choose the "RAID or "LVM" setting in the partitioning step.

If you only want to install on one physical disk, it is also possible with live media. Just select the option to completely wipe existing partitions in the Calamares installer and let the installer automatically partition your physical disk.

DricC · 2025-09-20 11:08

Thank you. Your help here is precious. One of the reasons I like Q4OS.

q4osteam wrote:

Just select the option to completely wipe existing partitions in the Calamares installer and let the installer automatically partition your physical disk.

That's what I had done, selecting one of the two disks and choosing 'Erase all' in the Calamares installer. Q4OS installed properly. Only thing is that the other disk is encrypted (I successfully unencrypted and mounted it, by the way). The question is, what is the best way to remove the encryption of this disk, as I don't want it encrypted.

I'm not very experienced, therefore my questions are pretty basic :-)

DricC · 2025-09-22 12:33

Any hint?

q4osteam · 2025-09-22 12:43

We would recommend to backup, reformat and restore data. However it's possible to remove encryption, see for example: https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … encryption

Warning: This procedure is dangerous, backup all your data first.

DricC · 2025-09-22 12:53

Not sure I understand you. You say I should backup, reformat, restore? Even when i have nothing valuable stored on this pc?
You say it's possible? Or impossible you mean?

q4osteam · 2025-09-22 12:57

If you don't want to keep any data, just reformat the partition, it's quite easy. You can use GParted for example.

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