Installing Ubuntu 6.06 With RAID 1 ON Dell Server
I received my new Dell desktop and server on Wednesday, and spent the last couple of days installing Ubuntu on them. For my server, I have two 250 gig hard drives, and wanted to set up RAID 1. I can’t say I know a lot about RAID controllers, but from what I have read a lot of the supposed RAID controllers that ship with servers are not real hardware controllers and therefore do not always work out of the box with Linux.
For that reason, and cost, I decided to go with software RAID 1. Following the directions, it worked like a charm. I had to download the alternate install in order get the options to set up RAID, and I decided to go with 6.06 server edition. Everything was up and running in a short amount of time. Using this site as a guide, I began installing the software I needed, like Apache, MySQL and PHP5. I ran into an interesting issue on my desktop, while trying to install Ubuntu 6.10 along with Windows Vista, but I’ll save that for another post….