Install debian on dmraid

It may be hiding there. I have found that gparted does not work correctly for me. I used fdisk and mkfs. Another strange situation is, during Live CD installation, the partition section shows multiple lines for each of the raid partitions.

Some of these had "no number". I installed to the partitions "with" numbers and deselected the "no number" partition for swap use. This allowed the installation to work. Also, if you are using a Live CD install, ""do not"" deselect grub install. It could wreck any previous grub instalaltion. A Striping with Fake Root 9.

Added something about Alternate CD at the top - hope people don't mind, but if you're new to Ubuntu, you don't know what this is and don't realise that it's an official thing which you need to download. My windows boot drive has gb free space according to Windows' 'Computer Management' app, but only 27mb according to the ubuntu installer's partitioning app - hence I can't install it. After 2 tries to get started on linux and each time discovering it'll likely be thrice as hard as I thought it would be the time before an example.

Basically you install using the live cd alternate no longer required in 9. GRUB2 currently does not have the means to boot a fakeraid setup and is rumored to be fixed in time for Trick was using chmod on the disc's root partition! Partitioning and formatting with ubiquity installer didn't work for me.

I had to do it before launching the ubiquity installer. Do not format nor partition using the ubiquity installer. As you already format the partition in the step 6. You can find them using cfdisk at the top of the main screen be aware: they are not displayed in the same order. Usually 0 as specified in the step 9. Replace X with the partition number from the previous step. Example: root hd0,4 9. Make sure the device. This file is used to map the dmraid device to a grub hdY. Using these dmraid devices, your device.

Dual-Boot configuration. In case of a dual boot with Win7, grub may have some problem to launch windows. An easy solution is to install grub on the linux partition not the MBR. To add a new entry into the win7 boot manager, you can use the official "bcdedit" command or the unofficial graphical utility named "EasyBCD 2. There is just some issue about a restricted hard-drive area used by some motherboards, which is ignored by default in Ubuntu.

Trying Ubuntu I just cant become friends with the distro. Running debian installer will give a list of available disks. Every one of them fails on the same point, i. This however is not the case. As it turned out, this process was simpler then I initially expected. I will shortly describe it here using screen-shots captured during initial tests. As an example I will configure RAID1 for the root file-system and swap space using two storage devices, without any additional spare devices. During partition creation process select physical volume for RAID as partition type.

You will be asked to store changes applied to the partition tables — do it so partitions created in the previous step can be used to create RAID arrays. I just post it here so I can understand the problem better. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.

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