Ghost RAIDs

Posted by jonamerica on September 9th, 2008

I ran into the same problem in each of the two Ubuntu installs that I recently completed. The initial install failed, and the RAID arrays I had setup could not be deleted. This became a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in the way of completing the install process. In the first instance I finally did a complete wipe of all hard drives that had any part of the RAID configuration. Not wanting to go through that long process again I delved into finding a more sensible solution.

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MythTV II: Return of MythTV

Posted by jonamerica on September 7th, 2008

Less than a year ago I ventured into the realm of MythTV. My previous ramblings on the subject dealt almost entirely with the hardware end of things. I decided to use the lasted releases of Ubuntu and MythTV as an excuse to recreate the entire system, learning from the first experience, and documenting my setup and configuration to create this MythTV install guide. Read the rest of this entry »



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