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Hey Mike,

Sorry for the late response but after your helped me burst the bubble i have been busy playing with the IDS.. :)

So just to know if i understand you right.. you want to make your OWN...

NICE!!

From what you are showing in the screenshots it looks like you thinking the HP smartstart combined with some HP insight manager (I mainly work with HP, as you know :) )

Correct me if om...

Hey Darko

I will make the boot as you mention - Thanks..

In regards to the ways i could make the RAIDS...

I really appriciate the info and it is certainly something to think about in the...

OK I got it working and i couldn't have done it without you two guys... A BIG HUG ALL AROUND!! ok maybe thats a little too pink :)

Anyways.. THANKS!!

For other posters and desperate people :)
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@ Darko

Just got one major step forward

I rebooted the server and restarted the installation wizard meaning non of the options I had chosen before was picked. During partion i made the...

I have chosen to move with you BusyBox idea since im most familier with that..

but neither sudo nor parted is a valid command in the Busybox terminal??

EDIT:

I tried the livecd with ubuntu...

OMG!!!! this is starting to give me..MORE.. gray hairs...

I have tried making a livecd and boot it.. I have used the windows tool aswell.. tryed with both debian livecd which fails both with cd...

wilco!

brb with information.. need to make a livecd and all that jazz

Duh forgot the pics :P

I would say i have the flags are set..

Now i have tested it with a grup bios partion on every disc in the server. Actually i recreated alle partitions so they all appear in the same order on all...

Hey :)

I have tried biosgrup on all disks aswell.. and that didn't work either.. same error..

Maybe i did something wrong.. Im currently home so i don't have access to the mashine here but i...

Hi Darko and thanks for the quick response..

I have attached (hopefully i did it right) two pictures.

The first picture error.jpg is the error im talking about which is the same error as i...

Darko... HELP!! :) Or anyone else for that matter :)

I know i'm not going about this excatly the way you suggestet. As fare as i know you wanted me to load the live cd and run the MD commands....

Guys thank you so much for your input..

I didn't know Darko did production as well, it was never mentioned as fare as i remember :) sorry darko :)

I have put some time aside thursday to give...

Guys I'm in all secreacy trying to get software raid to work... don't tell anyone :P my boss won't know the difference anyways.. i want this to work..

what i have done so fare is that i have...

what would you prefer to use in a server production environment? Hardware Raid Adaptec or Linux (Ubuntu server) Software raid?

Hi Darko and MaFoElffen,

Thanks for you input MaFoElffen!!

but :(

My boss is persistant in wanting to use a controler despite me pointing at the screen on your inputs and singing the song...

I know its N-1 but i could just swear that i have set up a raid 5 with more disc on a SAN before... but i guess i must remember wrong then...

I will give this another go sometimes next week when...

ok.. i think i will try it with the lvm thing...

another thing... when i make my raid 5 and choose 4 disk 0 disk for hot standby it still only gives me 9TB when i make the raid... since i have 3TB...

Valid points...

what are your thoughts on LVM vs Software raid?

The LVM thing sounded intrestining and i suppose a LVM volume is just as safe as a raid 1 5 6 10 or what ever as long as its not...

Hey Darkod,

Great stuff!!! you seem to know your stuff... and i can really use this. I may have errored when i didn't boot the live cd and create the partition first...

when comparing soft...

allso in regards to buying a dedicated controller for raid... do i have to get one that is certified for ubuntu? i don't think so since the raid controlle creates the raid at a lower layer then the...

It fails in the sense that i don't know what i'm doing... can you give me clear good guide to setup a raid 5 using software raid and 4 disc in a single patition which i then can install ubuntu server...

Darkod i think you misunderstand my post.. :)

I ment that the onboard HP raid controller og the HP server. I'm not talking about the Linux software raid.

What started all this was that i made...

Hey guys

After many attempts to get software raid up and going (im not linux expert) we have chosen to go ahead a buy a dedicated controller card instead .. this should work? as fare as i know I...