Getting GELI Keys from Floppy

[Frank Steinborn]

Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> Are you sure you want to trust a floppy disk for your keys??
> It's not the most safe medium these days...

I'll backup the keys on CD. It's just that I don't want to waste a
CD-ROM drive in this server.
 
> >
> > There is a problem here, because GELI initializes _before_ mounting
> > the disks from /etc/fstab (for obvious reasons, of course). So GELI is
> > not able to get the keys from the floppy and fails.
> >
> > So, any hints how I could get the floppy mounted _before_ GELI tries
> > to initialize?
> 
> Why don't you use the plain device(/dev/fd0) instead of using a file on a 
> filesystem on the floppy? I think there are examples in the manual page.

I could use /dev/fd0 directly but then I had to use the same key for
all 6 HDD's in the server. I got a solution by hacking /etc/rc.d/geli
- I'm just mounting the floppy there before it tries to read the key.

Thanks for all the people giving suggestions!

Frank