backup & low downtime for home network

[Chris Aitken]

Chris Aitken wrote:

> Chris Aitken wrote:
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>> I'm stalled in the ubuntu installer. About five screens into the 
>> installation I get a "Starting up the Partitioner" status bar. The 
>> status bar immediately climbs to 46% then is stuck there. These are 
>> two brand-new 160 GB hard disk drives - I don't think I have enough 
>> information to know if one of them is bad. I did the integrity check 
>> on the installation CD - it's fine.
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> Someone wrote/posted a step-by-step how to install ubuntu 7.10 from 
> the "Altenate Install CD" in a RAID 1 configuration. I'm downloading 
> the Alternate Install CD now.  I'm going to give it a try. Maybe it 
> won't stall at the Partitioner.

It looks like the ubuntu installation is going okay. I did the RAID 
stuff. Before that, I actually installed fedora 7 from the live cd as I 
was having trouble with the ubuntu installation. That way I could try 
out my new understanding of setting up software RAID. And it gave me an 
installation with which I could download/burn the .iso for ubuntu 
Alternate Install CD. That is the CD I am installing with now. The 
concepts as I understand them are: 1. Make two identical partition 
schemes on the two hard disks (with only two parameters: size and 
'physical volume for RAID'), 2. 'Configure software RAID', 3. Make the 
MD devices (three in my case: /, <swap>, and /home), and, finally, 4. 
Choose filesystem and mount point for each "partition" (MD device).

I shant get too cocky though - for the second attempt at installation I 
seem to be stuck at 'Select and Install Software...6%' just liek I was 
in the first attempt.
The CD-ROM drive and hard drive are just thrashing about. Painful to 
watch. I guess I'll leave it alone for an hour and if it costs me a 
CD-ROM drive, so be it. I wonder if the burn speed (for the ubuntu 
Alternate Install CD) was too fast for the 48x CD-ROM drive to read it 
(if that makes any sense). I know the CD is fine because it passed the 
integrity check...

Chris

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