I just saw this, so I'm responding in reverse order. > I downloaded the edubuntu-*-install-i386.iso from my local mirror and burnt > the cd. I deliberately picked the install cd and not the live one, > thinking that I was getting what ubuntu call the "alternate" installer, it > the old fashioned text-based one. It now appears that there is no > alternate install cd, you have to use the live installer. I have had > nothing but bad experiences with live installer, so this presents something > of a problem to me.
Hmm. The install CD worked for me as of last week; I had no surprises at all. > Then I got to partitioning. I really want to use software raid. This I don't know if this has changed, but in the past (Breezy timeframe, IIRC) software RAID for / was not supported in Ubuntu. > onto it using the edubuntu live installer. The text-based installer did > provide this functionality, albeit the system didn't actually boot for me > in the end[1]. Right. That's the sort of problem I had and after I searched around at the time, I discovered that software RAID on / was unsupported -- then. I don't know why it's broken, but I've been using hardware RAID since then so I haven't checked again. > I appreciate that the live installer is nice for newbies but it seems to > remove support for a whole host of useful things like software raid and is > really horribly unreliable and slow in my experience. Please could we have > the alternate installer back? You said above that "It now appears that there is no alternate install cd". What do you mean by that? http://releases.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/6.10/edubuntu-6.10-install-i386.iso is the PRIMARY recommended installation CD; the LiveCD is a somewhat accidental "alternate" option, as I understand it. I would guess that the Edubuntu project got a LiveCD with an installer just because *every* Ubuntu got one, even though Edubuntu's actual install CD is really the one you want to get LTSP OOTB. --matt -- Open Source Software Engineering Consultant http://majen.net/ -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
