On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 16:56 +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
A little story...
I decided to upgrade an Ubuntu 8.04 install to 9.10.
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I didn't mention, by the way, that the system boots from a software RAID array, which "just worked".
Is this Ubuntu desktop or server?
Tuesday evening I was trying installing Ubuntu onto a PC which was to have mirrored disks and with Ubuntu desktop:
1. There didn't seem to be any way to specify any kind of RAID in the partitioning step.
2. Converting afterwards seemed fraught with difficulty.
In the end I thought I'd have a go at Ubuntu server and found instead of the fancy graphical installer I got what I recognised as the Debian text-based installer which handled setting up the RAID perfectly.
Converting back to a desktop versions is not completely obvious but in the end involved:
1. Not choosing any of the server types - choose "manual" or whatever it was called. 2. When aptitude appears look in the "Tasks" section and choose Ubuntu desktop.
After that it downloads most of the desktop related packages from the net as these are not on the server CD.
Regards, Steve.