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disturbed13
December 17th, 2012, 09:09 PM
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m294/hedoe/IMAG0201_zpsffe028b2.jpg

it doesnt matter how i try to install it
i get this no matter what

i have gone into the BIOS and made a RAID1 array from 2 160 GB HDD's
i have want to partition off the space like so
4GB swap
60GB for /
and the rest of the HDD for /home

but it wont install
what has happened?
im trying to use Ubuntu 12.04(?) the LTS distro

system specs
Core2 Quad
6GB DDR3 RAM

thanks for any help

sandyd
December 17th, 2012, 09:13 PM
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m294/hedoe/IMAG0201_zpsffe028b2.jpg

it doesnt matter how i try to install it
i get this no matter what

i have gone into the BIOS and made a RAID1 array from 2 160 GB HDD's
i have want to partition off the space like so
4GB swap
60GB for /
and the rest of the HDD for /home

but it wont install
what has happened?
im trying to use Ubuntu 12.04(?) the LTS distro

system specs
Core2 Quad
6GB DDR3 RAM

thanks for any help
I would guess that that isn't really RAID 1 but fakeraid.

You probably want to use software raid, as it is easier to recover than fakeraid. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408461 for setup details

disturbed13
December 17th, 2012, 09:23 PM
?????
how could it be a fakeraid when i go into the BIOs and set it up from there?


oh
nvm

ronparent
December 19th, 2012, 03:03 AM
By definition a RAID set up in BIOS is what the Linux community refers to as a fakeRAID (it is a Windows software RAID implementation). Ubuntu 12.10 currently doesn't install automatically on a RAID set. There are ways to do it but it is not straight forward. If you want to setup with a linux software RAID, as suggested, you will need to beforehand erase the fakeRAID metadata written to your drives. Also you will not be able to use Windows on a RAID setup on a Linux software RAID set. There it is in a nutshell - how you proceed is your choice.