10.04.1 LTS install with RAID support?

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On 28 January 2011 14:38, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>> > Not yet. The problem is that I don't have any writable CD anymore.
>>
>> I specifically meant use the netinst ISO on a usb stick using
>> unetbootin. I used this last week, and believe you won't get the CD
>> mount issue because the mini/netinst iso doesn't grab packages from a
>> local CD repo but from online.
>>
>> But it looks like you're sorted now :)
>>
> Sorted, not really. I believe my main problem is that these drives had
> already an Soft RAID config on them. I'm trying to re-purpose them. But the
> installation can't remove the RAID configuration. It would be nice to have
> an option to remove all RAID partitioning before the partitioning happen.
> Anyway, I tried removing that stuff with Gparted... failed. mdadm
> --zero-superblock fails. So.. waiting for the long dd -if=/dev/zero on them
> and hopefully this md2 array won't show up on next install!
> Is this supposed to be that complicated?

There's no reason why
mdadm --zero-superblock <every_mdadm_partition>
wouldn't work.

It's definitely the way to go.