vote +1

Saïvann Carignan wrote:
> Colin Watson and Tormod Volden :
> 
> This can be enabled in karmic since we now have grub2 which support direct 
> raid boot.
> Making it possible to install ubuntu on raid requires very little changes now 
> :
> 
> 1. Install mdadm by default into the livecd environment. (676 Kb)
> 2. Patch ubiquity to run these commands in the /target chroot AFTER raid has 
> been partitioned and ubuntu has been installed to make / accessible from 
> initramfs by updating mdadm.conf :
> chroot /target /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
> chroot /target update-initramfs -u
> 
> With these two small changes, it's possible for a user that knows how to
> partition and raid from command line to install ubuntu on his raid
> device from ubiquity, using manual partitioning. I tried it and it work
> perfectly. And it's the first step to make raid accessible from LiveCD.
> And since grub2, it's not necessary for partman to make sure that /boot
> is installed on a different partition.
> 
> Left to implement later :
> Ubiquity to manage and offer RAID during installation (looks like Palimpsest 
> is already starting to offer functionalities related to raid, which are 
> limited at the moment).
>

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RAID not implemented (use alternate CD instead)
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