Setting up Ubuntu on a raided system

[Alan Chandler]

On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) wrote:
> Franz Waldmüller schreef:
> > Alan Chandler schrieb:
> >> I have been a long time Debian Sid User, but I would like to
> >> explore the more structured release cycle that Ubuntu offers.
> >>
> >> I downloaded the latest 9.04beta .iso and started to install, but
> >> unlike the debian installer, it didn't appear to offer an option
> >> to load up the raid software, so the partitioning options
> >> concentrated only on one offering to repartition my disks without
> >> raid applied.
> >
> > In order to setup a RAID-configuration you have to use the
> > alternate-CD.
>
> That simply is not true!
>
> You *can* use the normal graphical install cd with raid and lvm
> configurations. I do that all the time.
>
> You just have to install raid and lvm2 inside the livecd session
> before you start the installation.

Interesting - its a bit academic now, since I downloaded and installed 
from the Alternate-CD.  That almost worked perfectly - the only thing 
that didn't was me trying to be clever, and I didn't wipe my /boot 
partition clean (thus not deleting grubs 1.5 stage files - thus not 
needing to re-install grub which I had problems when I did it with 
Debian).  Debian's kernel image was newer and was still the default 
image to boot, yet all its modules had been wiped.  But once I had fixed 
that, I it came up without problems.

But I will try and remember for the future.   


-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk