Re: Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Server

2012-03-27 Thread Phillip Waclawski
Yes, RAID 1 does seem like a minimum requirement anymore. Phil Waclawski - Original Message - From: "Michael Butash" To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:28:53 AM Subject: Re: Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Server Well, most pe

Re: Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Server

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Butash
oot Record. GPT is newer, larger, and demands specific hardware abilities. I've seen Win 7 using GPT, so caveat emptor. (-: Chas.M. :-) -------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:11:34 -0700 Subject: Re: Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Serv

RE: Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Server

2012-03-26 Thread ChasM Marshall
Record. GPT is newer, larger, and demands specific hardware abilities. I've seen Win 7 using GPT, so caveat emptor. (-: Chas.M. :-) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:11:34 -0700 Subject: Re: Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Server From: nadimho...@gmail.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us W

Re: Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Server

2012-03-21 Thread Nadim Hoque
Well with my setup I do have the boot partition separate from the LVM and the raid is pure software as far as I know. I was just asking if it was safe to do so. Unfortunately the boot partition is a bit on the smaller size at 100mb so I can easily fit around 2 kernels. I guess the other reason I am

Re: Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Server

2012-03-21 Thread Michael Butash
Should be able to - depends how you're partitioned. I'm assuming your raid0 is done with mdadm and not fake-raid based. As long as your boot partition (non-lvm) is large enough to support enough kernels, you should be able to install over the system lv's you don't want, and not touch the ones

Re: Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Server

2012-03-21 Thread Stephen
if it boots up and sees the LVM then you should be able to customer partition and configure without reformatting. you can look and see a fair amount without even writing changes to the disk. However i would still make a backup. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote: > I currently h

Going from Centos 6 to Ubuntu Server

2012-03-21 Thread Nadim Hoque
I currently have Centos 6 installed with software raid 0 with LVM. I was wondering if it is possible to install Ubuntu server 10.04 with those settings without data loss and that the current raid/lvm will stay in tact. So far in my experience I should be able to do this, but I just wanted your inpu