12.04 and RAID

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Okay, I understand and understand also that resources are limited and
that the ideal is sadly not possible. Uhfortunately this is something
I'm unable to help with.

You asked for constructive criticism. It would be helpful to communicate
more clearly and answer people's questions directly -- it would have
saved effort on both our parts if you had clearly answered, "What
you're missing is that it isn't possible from the LiveCD's installer.
You'll have to install vanilla Ubuntu from the alternate install and
install the US packages".

I knew that that was an option, but you could have made it clear that
that is the ONLY option. It's a common problem of not using five words
when they are necessary for clarity and two can confuse the situation
much more easily :-)

Sincerely, though, many thanks for your help. I'll download the alt
install and do something else for several hours.

Many thanks

Q

On 5/31/2012, "Mike Holstein" <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Its arguable if going to a live cd is a step forward or back, but its the
>step that has been taken.. ideally, we will have both live and alternate..
>would you like more information on how to help with the develpoment and
>maintenance of an alternate iso? As of now we are focusing on the live cd,
>and there is an arguably acceptable way to get what you need. Let us know
>if you need more assistance or have more constructive criticism.
>On May 31, 2012 3:43 PM, <lists at quirq.ukfsn.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> I know that's an option but would prefer not to have to spend a whole
>> load more time downloading over a slow connection and burning another
>> disc, if at all possible. Plus I haven't always met with 100% success
>> in the past when installing US packages on a vanilla install.
>>
>> Do you mean to say that the installer for US is totally incapable of
>> recognising RAIDs? If so, why the backward step with the installer and
>> why no warning of this in the release notes? It mentions "a wider range
>> of disk setup options" but doesn't actually mention what these are; I
>> would have thought RAID was a common enough option to be in there.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Q
>>
>> On 5/31/2012, "Mike Holstein" <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >You can use an alternate and add the studio packages
>> >On May 31, 2012 3:29 PM, <lists at quirq.ukfsn.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> I've had the US 12.04 ISO sat around on my machine for a little while
>> >> now and decided that the long weekend was a good time to upgrade.
>> >>
>> >> I'm used to the text-based installer from the alternate ISOs of
>> >> yesteryear and previous US installs.
>> >>
>> >> With the new graphical installer I can't see how to tell it to mount my
>> >> existing 3-disc RAID5 as /home -- the installer picks up the individual
>> >> discs but doesn't seem to recognise them as being a RAID.
>> >>
>> >> What am I missing?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance
>> >>
>> >> Q
>> >>
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