After applying several updates (12.04 LTS > 12.10 > 13.04) and messing around with the nvidia drivers, my Ubuntu install became a bit unstable... so I wanted to find a quick way to re-install 13.04 to be able to mess around again but from a clean install ;-)
The main hurdle here is that the main Ubuntu distribution does not provide the alternate installer (which embeds raid support) anymore...
However, I recently found out that the Lubuntu distribution still provides the alternate installer !
ISO image is available here : http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/raring/release/
After my first try to install Lubuntu, Windows 8 was actually removed from the EFI loader (even from the bios). I followed the instructions posted here : http://www.tweakhound.com/2012/11/13/how-to-fix-the-windows-bootloader/ and hopefully the automatic repair worked for me (don't forget you need to make a recovery drive in Windows 8 prior to do this).
Other than that, I'm now running Lubuntu and find it great (quick to install, minimal set of apps, etc.)
I can now see that HDMI is supported out the box (with the nouveau driver) but is really buggy and cannot be used as is. Next step for me is to try to install the latest beta nvidia drivers with Optimus support again... Will keep you posted on that.
Maybe you reinstalled on top of an older version but if you install from scratch using the Ubuntu 13.04 installer you won't be able to create partitions within the RAID volume, that feature being provided only when you use the alternate installer.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I am wrong. Actually I didn't even try the default Ubuntu 13.04 installer as I thought that it will not detect the RAID array because I read Canonical has dropped the alternate images since 12.10 as stated here : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-August/035675.html
ReplyDeleteI will give it a try and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the tip !
I tried to re-install on my existing partitions with the default 13.04 Ubuntu installer. The partition manager GUI recognized my 2 existing partitions, I selected the / to format and ended up with a read/write error on the next screen while choosing the time zone.
ReplyDeleteFor me the alternate Lubuntu iso is still the easiest way to reinstall.
I also do prefer the text/console installer ;-)