Talk:My Ubuntu (7.10) Installation

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ATI has released a new version of the ATI GPU's driver, so it's possible to use compiz fusion with aixgl.

[edit] Grar's comment

No drivers/bad drivers for ATI x1800s 64-bit then? *quotes from the Book of Ubuntuforums: "One serious advanatge is the os is noticably faster. Also some programs can have a 30% increese in speed. You are using yout processor to its best advantages."

Though the main problem with 64-bit as I mentioned above is the lack of support in -ANY- OS for a lot of stuff. And given the rate at which your laptop crashed in Douglass last year... Heh. Anyway most 32-bit proggies will work in 64-bit environments, if your hardware has GOOD drivers for 64-bit Ubuntu then there's no real reason not to use it. --Grar 08:21, 8 November 2007 (PST)

[edit] Moochm's comment

Hello, glad I found your article on Gutsy + RAID0 (came from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto). My situation is similar, but I am trying to install Gutsy on an AMD64 desktop with a 2-disk RAID-0 (nvidia 570 fakeraid). Windows XP has been previously installed on the RAID array. I successfully booted the 64bit LiveCD and got dmraid to recognize the array. Formatting (ext3) and installing ubuntu-base to an empty (primary) partition on the array went smoothly. The part I am having trouble with is GRUB. With grub installed on the new partition (/boot/grub) and files copied over from liveCD (/usr/lib/grub/x86_64/), running Grub produces a message about unknown partition table signature (don't have the exact error handy). Despite the message, grub started so I tried the next steps but doing 'setup (hd0)' resulted in an 'unable to mount' error. I am probably just doing something dumb but can't seem to get past this. One of the main differences in my setup is that my partition table was created by Windows OS - could that pose a problem? As I said, mkfs had no trouble formatting the partition I want to use for ubuntu but maybe there is something weird about the partitions that is confusing grub? I would like to list partition table but I'm not at home right now. Thanks for your excellent work on this how-to! --Moochm 13:36, 16 November 2007 (PST)

[edit] Error Installing 'dmraid' in chroot-ed environment

On amd64, I got the following when I attempt apt-get install dmraid in the chroot-ed environment:

Setting up dmraid (1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu5) ...
invoke-rc.d: initscript dmraid, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing dmraid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dmraid
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Bit of a show-stopper :(

The reason is that dmraid's post-install script runs 'update-initramfs', which fails due to the lack of a kernel or modules.

I'd been following the FakeRaidHowto and (wrongly) expected debootstrap to install a kernel, etc. Doing:

# apt-get install linux

-- allowed dmraid to complete its installation.