Installing Ubuntu from the Alternate CD. This screencast shows the install process and shows in a little detail the partitioning process. It covers setting up disks using the guided partitioning method to setup disks as simply as possible, but also covers more complex scenarios such as LVM and RAID0, 1 and 5. Note: Ubuntu 7.10 was used for this screencast. This version of Ubuntu is not yet released, and should therefore not be used for production systems. Also, some screens may change between this screencast and when Ubuntu 7.10 releases in October.
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Raid and /boot
Hi, i see that on screencast you doesn't have /boot on separate partition, so /boot's files are on /, which is on raid. Will grub work with this? It is simpler than LVM (which isn't supported by grub), especially in mirror mode (grub need only to know about first disc), but is this really supported/working?
A propos Raid. For setup with multiple disks, I will recomend to have 3 separate swaps, so it will be much faster.
raid o
Giday alan Glenn from down under here mate
I loved you video good stuff keep up the good work !!!!!
But what sort of raid controller where you using on your mother board for all that stuff to work
Every one shows you all this good imformation but leaves out the computer specs , I am trying to use an older mother board its a (p4p800e deluxe) made by asus 478 3.0 gig cpu and two 80 gig seagate sata hard drives . I try to configure and i get to the part ( PLEASE CHOOSE THE TYPE OF MUITIDISK DEVICE TO BE CREATED ) ( RAID 0) Then i push enter then i get the red screen of death where it tells you that there is no type of linux raid autodetect and so on .Is this just me or does everyone get the same response ???? . I mean linux is new to me but i just cant get enough of it for such good solid software the raid part lets it down quite a bit for people who by good mother boards with raid on them . Please could you do this again on gusty know that it is fully supported and they have most off the bugs out of the system that wood be great . Cheers Glenn.
installing onto RAID0 with XP already installed
HI Alan
just followed your awesome Flash of this. I've been running Ubuntu from 6.10 to 7.10 on my test system, and have decided to take the plunge and begin the process of moving over to Ubuntu.
- I now want to be able to put this on my main system which runs Raid 0, with WinXP installed.
... can I use the procedure that you go through in your demo, to do this?
e.g. will it detect the current partitions I have setup, including two unformatted partitions for 7.10, plus swap ?
... or would it be easier to format them ready in advance ?
... will the procedure above leave me with a Dual Boot system (which I would like), until both myself and my wife are happy to move over completely to Ubuntu ?
thanks in advance !
Ajc
UK
I'd be willing to bet that
I'd be willing to bet that the RAID controller in your PC is a "fakeraid" controller. Whilst it is possible to install Ubuntu and Windows dual booting on fakeraid, I really wouldn't recommend it.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto
FakeRaid ...
Hi Alan
- I've had a look at installing Ubuntu in my current scenario, and with the alternate CD it wants to get rid of all the partitions to take control of the partition table ... so a no go scenario in RAID.
- having looked at the many forums re this, I'm going to save all data, forget Ubuntu & Raid, install operating systems on one drive (XP first then Ubuntu), then put data on the other drive.
... it seems the 'easiest' way to proceed.
Thx again
Ajc
UK
re fakeraid ...
No, I'm sure that you're right ... it is enabled/disabled in the BIOS.
so if you are unable to recommend the fakeraid method, which way do I go ?
I was kind of wondering, looking at the Ubuntu 2nd install screencast, and noticed that although you covered all the options eg.raid (0 in my case), you did it with clean Hard Drives.
- if I go down the route that you recommend with WinXP already installed, will it pick up the existing partition tables ? so that WinXP doesn't get overwritten / deleted.
- should I format the partitions for root and swap before running the alternate cd install, or allow the install to do it ?
perhaps it might be worth adding this to your existing dialogue / screencast on installing ubuntu part 2 ... for those of us wanting to keep windows whilst in the process of moving to / experimenting with Ubuntu.
- look forward to your next comments
thx again
Ajc
UK
RAID0
I'm struggling along the same lines. ;-)
Did you have a look at http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/ubuntu/en/raid.html ?
Gr.
Peter
[Peter@ISOC.NL]