How to install Ubuntu in a RAID 0 array - Part 1 - #6

In this tutorial I show you how to install Ubuntu in a RAID 0 array.

To do this you'll need at least 2 hard drives and an Ubuntu alternate installation cd.

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• software raid
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[robstokes121]

your installing it on a virtual machine how does that work?

[amzertech]

@robstokes121 By creating two virtual hard drives.

[sweetasiansugar]

How do you dual boot windows 7 in RAID 0 and Ubuntu on that same RAID?

[TheSleepwaIker]

I installed the software raid but can not see the volume. How could it be?



[33rdPatriot]

A key thing not mentioned -- linux software RAID applies to PARTITIONS, not to entire disks (unlike hardware RAID controllers), so (for setting up a RAID1 (mirror) with two mirrors) you first make identical partitions and set them to be "software raid" - you THEN tell linux which named partitions (i.e., "/", "/boot", "/home", etc.) to put onto which RAIDed partitions. Software RAID goes in the "stack" just above the physical partitions, but below the partition naming / filesystem location.

[MrJacrider]

Many thanks for this tutorial. My new system has the OS now on a pair of SSD's set-up in RAID 0. Fast. Very fast.

[eltonrasch]

@sweetasiansugar I need to do it too... but i'm using Back Track 5 instead of Ubuntu... i think the process would almost the same... if anyone knows...

[TheMikebuntu]

Hi, I've watched several of your videos. They are very well done. Anyways, how did you get the VM to recognize both of the virtual drives? For some reason VB only sees one.

[jmksds]

very urgent!!!

While I installing,it asked like that

serial ATA RAID configurations have been found

do you wish to activate these RAID devices

Activate serial ATA RAID devices? yes or no...

What I shoud shoose??

[FutureChaosTV]

@thelegendarypaki

2. Windows does not know about the other raids. You need to setup 4 raids to get it to work. And you should setup one of the unices last because win will *uck over your other OSes.

I would try to work it out in this order:

1. Windows XP

2. Win7

3. OSX (How do you put this on a non Apple machine?)

4. Ubuntu

[Kirby5631]

Followed your video and got root on raid 1. Partytime!

Thanks.

[njhth]

hey friend. I have the Ubuntu 10.10 alternate download and I made it into a USB Flash. However, how can I access that menu? I don't see any options for that. It keeps letting me enter the Ubuntu OS. Thanks