Install of Ubuntu

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> [snip]
> > Yeah, if it were me, I would have loads of drives, for each OS, each
> > partition... but it's not possible
> [/snip]
> 
> It would make more sense to give each OS a small portion of each drive 
> and then use RAID to connect them all.  That would run a lot faster.

Yes, I intend to put my stable Ubuntu (Warty for now) system on a RAID
0, and Breezy and WinXP on normal/non-RAID partitions, as I don't care
of speed on these, and in case the RAID array fails, I could hopefully
still boot Breezy.
But for now, I have a couple 40GB very old drives, which are both
defective (constant fsck at boot, noisy...) and very slow (under
20MB/s). Putting a single, modern drive would prove faster and much
simpler than trying to set up a RAID0 array on my crappy drives.
So I am waiting until I can afford a coupld identical, and brand new,
40GB drives. Until then, it doesn't RAID0 doesn't make much sense I
think.
Also, simple fact is that I no nothing about the ins and out of RAID, so
I hardly feel competent/confident enough to set it all up, make informed
decisions, handle RAID problems/errors/failures etc.
I might soon be given a second Linux box, on which I could experiment
freely/wildly, though.
Your comment kinda answered one of the major questions I had about
RAIDO. I was wondering if RAID0 required to use two identical (size,
model, speed) drives, as well as requiring to use the entire Physical
drive, therefore making it impossible to boot from the RAID0 array, but
what you said seems to iply that it's possible to use different drives,
and make a RAID array with only parts of the disks, and use the rest of
the disk space for "normal" partitions (for /boot and WinXP and Breezy
for example).  So RAID seems a very flexible/useful system then, can't
wait to experiment with it all...

> On Apr 21, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> [snip]
> > Can't think any problem either way. I am triple-booting with WinXP and
> > Warty installed on one hard drive
> [/snip]
> 
> Warty can be installed on NTFS drives????

What do you mean ? Warty and Windows are obviously on different
partitions..... can Warty be installed on the same partition as
Windows ? What a mess that would be ! ;o)
No, my setup is much simpler than this:

hda, 40GB:  
	GRUB
	WinXP, FAT32, 4GB
	Warty, Ext3, 36GB

hdb, 40GB:
	Breezy, Ext3


--
Vince