<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Rog <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux.rog@gmail.com" target="_blank">linux.rog@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I tried helping a friend re-build his system using Xubuntu 12.04.3.
Installs failed. He had the same trouble with Unity, etc. We used
the "alternate CD" for one try at installing, having read that is
necessary for Raid.<br>
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Is Raid supported in Xunbutu and will it be continued?<br>
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My friend concluded from other sources of info that Raid support has
been dropped from Ubuntu "because most users don't use it."<br>
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He used mdadm to try to fix earlier install attempts. I have read
that mdadm runs as part of palimpsest / disk-utility. We could "see"
Raid setups (he has two) during install using the install attempt
during "manual" partitioning. We even put / and /root on separate
physical partitions outside of the Raid arrays.<br>
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He has also had trouble with getting grub to install properly. The
install would seemingly go correctly until the last steps and bomb
when grub was being installed.<br>
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/Roger<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From what I've seen, Ubuntu and Xubuntu are dropping the alternate install cds, not RAID support. Basically that means if you want RAID on a desktop, you will have to either install from a server CD and add in the desktop packages (not quite as hard as it sounds), install from netboot, or switch to RAID after a "regular" install. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have used this guide:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tolaris.com/2008/10/01/moving-your-linux-root-partition-to-raid/">http://www.tolaris.com/2008/10/01/moving-your-linux-root-partition-to-raid/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>many time successfully to move a single drive install over to RAID. Depending on what you think is easier, you could either just use the regular Xubuntu install CD, install to a single drive and follow that guide to move it over to RAID, or try to start from an ubuntu server CD, then apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Personally, I would install to the single drive then move it over to RAID. It always seems that adding xubuntu-desktop after the fact either leaves something out or isn't quite as "integrated".</div>
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