dmraid missing from live cd

[Andrea Bocci]

Kubuntu 8.04 beta - live CD

At least as of 8.04 beta, the desktop live CD does not include "dmraid".
Since "fake" raid is becoming quite common, and dual booting is unfortunately still too common, it would be useful to be able to install Ubuntu on a shared "fake" raid volume.

This is currently quite straightforward provided one knows the necessary steps:
 - "apt-get install dmraid" to the live environment
 - "fdisk /dev/mapper/..." to one's desired partition structure
 - "mke2fs -j /dev/mapper/..." and mkswap "/dev/mapper/..." to build the filesystems
 - correctly configure Ubiquity (currently there's a bug: /dev/mapper/... partitions with a filesystem are listed twice)
 - "chroot /target" and "apt-get install dmraid" to the target installation

Since most of the support is already in place (grub installs nicely, for example), it would be helpful if dmraid was included in the live cd: this would remove the first and last steps from the list - which incidentally are the only ones to require an internet connection :-p

[Kyle Jones (mutiny32)]

Seconded. This should be included.

[Kyle Jones (mutiny32)]

Give notice.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Kyle, don't assign bugs to the ubuntu-installer team; it spams us all by mail. We're aware of this bug and it's being worked on.

[Kyle Jones (mutiny32)]

My apologies, In Launchpad it looked as if the dmraid package maintainer had just seen the bug and said "yeah, this should be done" and wishlisted it. It has been open for quite some time and the only technical "bug" that seems present is a layer-8 issue.

Again, apologies for spamming everyone. But just to be the smartass I am, it DID gain some needed attention.

-Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:52 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 212309] Re: dmraid missing from live cd

Kyle, don't assign bugs to the ubuntu-installer team; it spams us all by
mail. We're aware of this bug and it's being worked on.

** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Ubuntu Installer Team (ubuntu-installer) => (unassigned)

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[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Marking this as fixed since it is included at least as of 10.04.