LiLoather
September 2nd, 2010, 12:27 PM
Trying to do clean install of 10.4 incorporating RAID 1.
Followed instructions in:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID
which admittedly relates to 9.01 and so I suppose cannot be reasonably expected to relate to 10.4
All went well until step 5, when I hit the button in writing the changes to disk. Then the installer when ahead and cheerfully installed the base system to the hdd I'd partitioned.
When that finished and I had the opportunity to <go back> I went back to the partitioner and duly repeated all steps 1 to 5, after which the Installer happily went ahead and installed the base system all over again.
After a cup of tea while that as going on I had another chance to <go back> and followed the steps in the guide to configure the RAID array. Fine. Wrote the changes to disk.
Hit the finished configuring button and was awarded a big red screen - no root file system selected.
Now, I think the Partitioner auto-selected / when configuring the partitions for a second time. Nothing was said about having to do it manually the second time and I don't even recall being given the option as it is, again, auto configured by the partitioner.
But now I can't make any changes to any partition because they're part of the RAID array and I can't install because the installer spits the dummy at the configuration.
Is it possible to finish installing to a single disk and then do in Ubuntu what is so easy in Windows, which is just to install another hard drive and tell Disk Manager that you want to mirror an existing partition to it?
Followed instructions in:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID
which admittedly relates to 9.01 and so I suppose cannot be reasonably expected to relate to 10.4
All went well until step 5, when I hit the button in writing the changes to disk. Then the installer when ahead and cheerfully installed the base system to the hdd I'd partitioned.
When that finished and I had the opportunity to <go back> I went back to the partitioner and duly repeated all steps 1 to 5, after which the Installer happily went ahead and installed the base system all over again.
After a cup of tea while that as going on I had another chance to <go back> and followed the steps in the guide to configure the RAID array. Fine. Wrote the changes to disk.
Hit the finished configuring button and was awarded a big red screen - no root file system selected.
Now, I think the Partitioner auto-selected / when configuring the partitions for a second time. Nothing was said about having to do it manually the second time and I don't even recall being given the option as it is, again, auto configured by the partitioner.
But now I can't make any changes to any partition because they're part of the RAID array and I can't install because the installer spits the dummy at the configuration.
Is it possible to finish installing to a single disk and then do in Ubuntu what is so easy in Windows, which is just to install another hard drive and tell Disk Manager that you want to mirror an existing partition to it?