On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Deepak Sarda wrote: > Hi all > > I have a Ubuntu Dapper system running on a RAID-0 setup. All > partitions except /boot are on /dev/md? devices. Since there's no dual > boot to worry about, the raid is mdadm managed instead of dmraid. > > Now I plan to install Feisty on this system. Since Dapper -> Feisty is > an unsupported upgrade path, I have to do a fresh install. > > So I started the Feisty install with the intention of retaining /home > & /share and formatting the rest of the partitions. Unfortunately, > when using the manual partition tool in the feisty alternate > installer, I got a big warning message saying exisiting raid can't be > reused! But then, it still detected the existing RAID layout. I wasn't > sure of continuing with the install so I chickened out of the install > and started googling but didn't find any useful answers. :-( > > I could go ahead with the installation and in case /home is > overwritten, restore from backup. But if /share is overwritten, > that'll be a pain since I don't want to backup 200GB of movies, etc., > just for this. > > Has anyone done such an install over an existing RAID? Any advice > would be much appreciated! > > Thanks > > deepak
Have done similar things with Debian, and it has worked fine. Unfortunately the Bootprocess in Ubuntu is somewhat arcane magic compared to Debian. One question are you using LVM on Raid? If you were using LVM this is just a simple matter of specifying some new mount points in some free space and doing the install to a new LV. Then if it works nuking the old /root etc and resizing the space. Using Raid without LVM is kinda like shooting yourself in the foot in my experience. > -- > http://antrix.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
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