The conclusion of My adventure installing Linux on softRAID1 (part 4) - 65

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Finally...I've gotten around to doing this.   It has really taken a lot longer than it should have...but life is busy (I even went on vacation somewhere in there...AND stripped wallpaper/painted 2 rooms in the house.   haha).
"Installing softRAID on Linux" is a more fitting title, at this point--being the Linux…

So... it's taking a lot longer than I thought. - 64

I've gotten back from vacation mentioned in the previous post...but I have STILL yet to even get on that computer I was working on.
We have been staying busy doing things around the house--stripping off wallpaper, painting, gettin tile, etc.
It is running currently as a single disk system, with a single disk RAId set up …

My adventure installing Linux on softRAID0/1 (part 3) - 63

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I fiddled around with this for a while, and ALMOST had it working.   However, on boot, my root RAID was not built, so boot would not continue.   I'm pretty sure something is out of order somewhere in some setting, but as of yet I have not been able to figure this…

My adventure installing Linux on softRAID0/1 (part 2) - 62

This is a continuation of Part 1.
After fiddling with Ubuntu and my RAID setup for a while, I got to thinking.   After every upgrade I would run into this same issue, and would have to re-do the array create/build/assembly process while making sure the kernel was placed properly, as well as the initramfs.
So... …

My adventure installing Ubuntu 9.04 on softRAID0/1 (part 1) - 61

2009-09-03 07:13:18

tidbits - 60

Petabytes on a budget:How to build cheap cloud storage
--Very Interesting.   I'm kind of tempted to try that one day.   Although...I don't need a Petabyte at ALL.
5 great open source games for Linux
--I'm downloading wormux right now :-)

Best of Open Source Software Awards 2009 - 59

2009-09-01 06:46:12