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Thanks, Jim, I did in fact download and install the package directly from virtualbox.org. I've got my original VM running, though I have a problem to chase down, see below.



OK, so it's just...

Hello everyone,

I'm upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04. I had a Windows Vista virtual machine running inside my 12.04 system. The Virtual Box installation instructions at help.ubuntu.com refer to a...

:redface: I don't know how automatic login was selected for that account, I must have had a stray click with my mouse? Problem solved, thank you Cheesemill!

I've waited two days before bumping this thread. I was hoping that an automatic software update might fix the problem. No luck so far. My system continues to jump straight onto the desktop of my...

Thanks for your replies, Cheesehead and carboi82.

I have a USB external drive for manual backups. I set up a USB drive once to be bootable. It was usable, but slow. I would also like a backup...

Hi, everyone.

I just upgraded to 13.04. Since 8.04, I have operated a system with two hard drives, configured in RAID1 using mdadm. The 13.04 installation would not cooperate with my existing...

Hello everyone,

When I first installed 13.04, I had the problem with my system not shutting down correctly that many other users had. I tried these suggestions. They may have helped. On the...

GParted, at least the version that came with the 13.04 installation, has what looked like a new feature to me: the option to create a partition, but not format it. That's what you told me to do for...

One frustrating month later, I am submitting what I expect to be the closing article in this thread.

After several unsuccessful attempts to get 13.04 installed on my mdadm- and MBR-based RAID1...

Thanks, Iowan. I'll subscribe to those threads and, hopefully, I'll remember to look through my subscribed threads the next time I have one to mark.

My efforts with mdadm succeeded, and I am ready to mark this thread as Solved. (Hey, where exactly did the "mark as solved" button go?) Thanks as always, darkod.

Unfortunately: the whole reason...

When I first started using RAID about three years ago, I read about dmraid/fakeraid and chose not to use it. Still, I checked, and the system was clear of any fakeraid data.


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$...

Thanks again, darkod, for your continued help.



I have done things like this before, but I just did it again. I keep getting stray logical partitions made, which I then have to remove, when...

Thank you darkod, here is the output you requested -- plus, the output of the mount command:


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/mdstat

Personalities : [raid1]
md127 : inactive sda2[0](S)
...

Hi folks,

A little bird told me that the Server forums would be the best place to seek advice on RAID. I've just tried to delete the partitions on a system that had (and maybe still has vestiges...

Thank you very much for your detailed reply, oldfred.

But my original thread, referenced in my thread from earlier today, is actually three weeks old. Even though dual-booting is widely used...

Sorry oldfred, you're right, I meant Hibernate.

Hello everyone,

I've been asking some very specific questions in the Installation and Upgrades section which haven't been getting any replies. (Maybe because I provide too much detail?) Anyway,...

I thought that the entire current contents of the system RAM were stored into the swap space by the Suspend feature? So if you use Suspend (admittedly, I don't, although I keep promising to look...

I was told that downloading mdadm while running from the 13.04 live DVD would allow me to install 13.04 onto my existing RAID1. It almost worked. I ran into trouble, as you can see here and here. ...

Hello everyone,

About a month ago, I tried to add Ubuntu 13.04 to my system, while preserving the option to boot into my existing Ubuntu 12.04. My efforts failed. I documented most of my...

I have gotten nowhere. My attempt to add 13.04 to my RAID1 system (in an unused partition, while preserving my 12.04 root partition) continues to fail at the grub-install. But after doing some more...

I burned a DVD from the 13.04 ISO, and booted it. It is MUCH faster.

I am proceeding with the installation after installing mdadm and assembling my RAID. Aside from being faster, so far it looks...

Followup:

It looked like 13.04 was going to install (SLOWLY) to my empty partition, but it failed. I got a grub-install error message:


Unable to install Grub in /dev/sda.
Executing...

Thanks for your reply, darkod.

I have confirmed that the mdadm package is not included on the 13.04 live ISO. And I BEG for this to change!

Whenever I have used an Ubuntu live CD, I have...