backup & low downtime for home network

Chris Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 6 21:42:47 UTC 2007


Chris Aitken wrote:

> Chris Aitken wrote:
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>> Chris Aitken wrote:
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>>> Okay, I set Master and Slave on each IDE cable. I'm starting up the 
>>> computer now (I'm installing ubuntu 7.10). The first thing I see is,
>>>
>>> The folowing configuration options were automatically updated:
>>>
>>> Disk: 137438MB   WDC WD1600AAJB-00PVA0
>>> CD-ROM: CDD-1480
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>> Okay, the ubuntu installer sees it as a 160 GB hard drive. 
>> Nevertheless, it's only discovered /dev/sda which means it doesn't 
>> see the second hard drive at all. I guess I'll have to open the box 
>> and re-check the jumpering (?)...
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> I'm fine - the IDE cable was a little loose from the hard drive. These 
> modest revelations are both embarassing and happy-making.

I'm at the 'Prepare Partitions' screen of the ubuntu installer. When am 
I going to be oferred the opportunity to set up RAID?

Chris

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