The company that I work for has provided me a Dell D630 Latitude. And since this is the only laptop I have, I use it for my personal purpose too. The laptop came with windows XP installed. Since I have never been a fan of Windows, I wanted to get back to ubuntu on my laptop.
This is where the problems started. Now the company is paranoid when it comes to security. They have installed an application called the Data Armor. This application keeps the hard disk encrypted at all times. In fact, when the laptop starts, the whole disk is encrypted and a password dialog box appears from Data Armor. At this point, if you do not know the password, you cannot decrypt the hard drive, thus ensuring the safety of the contents inside it.
When you log into Data Armor, the drive is decrypted, and the laptop boots again. This time though, the normal windows welcome screen appears. All the time that windows is operating, the Data Armor works in the background.
Now, I would like to install ubuntu using wubi on this laptop, but am not sure about a few issues. The biggest concern is that will installing ubuntu break or conflict with the Data Armor? I suppose the initial boot phase should be fine. After all, the hard disk is encrypted and Data Armor has no information whether the computer runs a windows or a linux. But then, once the reboot is done, will logging into ubuntu disrupt the functioning of Data Armor? Will it fail to maintain the encrypted state of the disk, thereby leading to a failure in the next boot up? Or will it gracefully allow the operation of ubuntu go on, and yet start up when logging into windows the next time?
So many questions to which I have no answers. I have tried googling around a bit but to no avail. I have only met with failure every time. In fact, I also tried querying the technical support guys at the company regarding this, but never got a satisfactory reply. A few question my need for ubuntu, reiterating that since my work does not require me to work on ubuntu, my official laptop should not contain the linux. A few nod to my possible explanations, but always remarking that even they are not sure of it. And then there are the few who don’t even know what wubi is!
So as it stands, I am yet to install ubuntu in my laptop. I will have to refine my search to get better results. Hopefully I succeed.
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