[SWLUG] Ubuntu Server Install No CD

[Daniel Morgan]

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Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Looking for what?
A tutorial on how to do a no cd install or such.
> Are you contemplating using RAID-5 or RAID-1? RAID-5 is very
> compute-intensive, and if this is an old server then you may find
> the performance drops a bit too far under load. Also remember that
> you can only write to one drive on a given IDE channel at any one
> time, so if you're writing to 3 or 4 disks on two channels then
> again you may hit a performance problem. Of course, you may have
> more than two IDE channels in which case you can put each of three
> drives on its own channel.
>
> There's no real reason why you can't put CD and hard disk on the
> same channel - time was when this would slow the channel to the
> speed of the slowest device, but that's no longer the case. If
> you're using RAID-1, and thus only need two disks, this would be
> the easiest way of fixing the installation problem.
>
> You might also think about future maintenance - if there's no CD
> (and, if an old server, presumably no opportunity to boot from a
> USB device), then that could present problems. You probably don't
> want to try to diagnose a no-boot system from TOMSRTBT, good
> thought it is!
Thanks for the response. I intend to use raid 0. The server has only
one ide ribbon, and although you have raised an interesting point
about performance, this is still the way I wish to go because of the
spanned volume, therefore more disk space. I need a partition bigger
than the size of the drives hold on their own.

Dan (Plod)
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