fakeRAID instructions applied to Kubuntu

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Matthew Kuiken wrote:

> Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
>> Yeah, I did read the big note at the top, but unfortunately, I fall into
>> the latter category:
>> "So far, this works for some, while for others, Ubuquity crashes."
>> So I'm forced to follow the manual steps.
>>
>> I've run into a problem.  See the "Temporary Note" at the bottom
>> of "Installing the Base System":
>>
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/FakeRaidHowto?highlight=%28raid%29#head-b3ee9096ee8ca7f93e5fe6f2da2cc80cbf079eeb
>>
>> What is described in the note happened to me, but the solution in the
>> note
>> doesn't work.  When I try to run dpkg-reconfigure dmraid, I get an error:
>> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: dmraid is broken or not fully installed
>>
>> I really want to get Kubuntu working on my fake RAID and reiserfs, but
>> it's looking bleak...
>>
>> Thanks for the help,
>> -- Christopher
>>   
> 
> Sorry to the list for replying to the same email twice, but I am
> wondering, given the above, what the output of your modified:
> 
> apt-get install ubuntu-base linux-k7 ubuntu-desktop dm*raid* grub
> 
> command was.  Did everything actually get installed?  If not, the errors
> from the output of that command might help in figuring this out.
> 
> -Matt

You know what's really weird?  The problem kinda just went away, and I have
no idea why.  I typed (from the chroot'ed shell) "apt-get install dmraid"
and it magically worked...even though I'd tried that many times before with
the results previous posted in this thread.

I'm beginning to wonder if it was messed up in the repository and over the
hours I was trying to work this out, it got fixed (don't laugh, that
actually happens in the Fedora world sometimes).

I feel really bad about not actually knowing the solution to the problem. 
I'm almost tempted to try the install from scratch again so I can see if it
happens again.

-- Christopher