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My adventure installing Linux on softRAID0/1 (part 2)

Posted by jamba on September 4, 2009

This is a continuation of Part 1.

After fiddling with Ubuntu and my RAID setup for a while, I got to thinking.  After every upgrade I would run into this same issue, and would have to re-do the array create/build/assembly process while making sure the kernel was placed properly, as well as the initramfs.

So… combining that realization with my positive experience with Arch Linux, I decided to give up on Ubuntu and proceed forward using Arch.  I have had no problems thus far with running Arch on my laptop, but on my desktop I will be much more focused on stability, rather than latest-and-greatest.  Luckily for me, they just annouced a kernel26-lts not very long ago–this is a kernel that will stay supported for a longer period of time with no major changes.  I will also put Gnome and Xorg on hold so they will not update automatically. Read the rest of this entry »

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My adventure installing Ubuntu 9.04 on softRAID0/1 (part 1)

Posted by jamba on September 3, 2009

So yesterday I got a couple of new HDD’s:  WD black 640 GB 3.5″ drives, so I figured I would do something I had wanted to do for a while:  give my primary desktop a RAID setup.  I’ve gotten tired of backing up pictures and other important information (…but mostly pictures), and it would make my life easier to have a RAID1 array.

However,  I do not have a hardware RAID, or anything of that nature.  So after doing some searching, I came up with these links:

So, following along with the collective of what these articles were stating, I went to download the Ubuntu Alternate installer CD.  This did not turn out very well, though.  I downloaded it twice, and had the right md5sum.  Burned it 3 times, and each time when I checked the disc for defects, the same file was always corrupted.   How can this happen?  I even tried two different burners.

Giving up on this, I went for the regular AMD64 Desktop installer.  I figured I could boot to the live environment, and then do an apt-get update followed by an apt-get install mdadm.

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