Installing Zorin using Ubiquity?

PeterN · 28 April 2024 17:04

Hi all,

I would be keen on doing a fresh Zorin installation using Raid0. Yeah, I know it isn't really recommended, but I would be keen on using it anyway. I see a lot of Ubuntu based raid0 guides all refer to:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/umpirsky/6ee1f870e759815333c8

ubuntu-raid.sh

# http://askubuntu.com/questions/505446/how-to-install-ubuntu-14-04-with-raid-1-using-desktop-installer
# http://askubuntu.com/questions/660023/how-to-install-ubuntu-14-04-64-bit-with-a-dual-boot-raid-1-partition-on-an-uefi%5D

sudo -s
apt-get -y install mdadm
apt-get -y install grub-efi-amd64
sgdisk -z /dev/sda
sgdisk -z /dev/sdb
sgdisk -n 1:0:+100M -t 1:ef00 -c 1:"EFI System" /dev/sda
sgdisk -n 2:0:+8G -t 2:fd00 -c 2:"Linux RAID" /dev/sda

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where a key part is installing the operative system using 'ubiquity' once the raid0 array has been created.

When I tested ubiquity, I wasn't able to install any other OS than Kubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this working, or found another way of combining Raid0 with Zorin OS?

zabadabadoo · 29 April 2024 13:49

Whilst you are waiting for a reply here on the forum, have you tried doing a websearch of the issue using "Ubuntu 22.04" instead of ZorinOS 17.

PeterN · 29 April 2024 14:47

Hi @zabadabadoo !

Yes, and when I searched using "Ubuntu" instead of "ZorinOS", I generally found two types of resources:

Different versions of the github script above.
Guides like this this one from Digital Ocean:
How To Create RAID Arrays with mdadm on Ubuntu | DigitalOcean
That guide looks good for the hardware array, but my issue is how to get the Zorin installer to recognize raid0.

The guide like the github script essentially has four parts:

Set up the the first part of the raid array
Install Ubuntu using Ubiquity
Configure the rest (without rebooting)
Reboot

My current computer already have raid0 preinstalled with SlimbookOS, so if I could reuse that everything would be a lot easier, but the ZorinOS installer doesn't recognize this installation (it just shows me my two different hard drives).

Ideally I would like to reuse my existing raid0, but would also be fine to do the whole process from scratch - any way to get this working would be a good way!.

zabadabadoo · 29 April 2024 16:05

First. I do not have either a hardware or software raid setup myself, so can offer limited help. I am not sure how many users do employ raid arrays, so advice from the Zorin community may be sparse.

From another websearch, I did find this. system installation - Unable to install Ubuntu 20.04 with pre-existing software RAID with 2 disks - Ask Ubuntu

I don't know if that will help you or not.

By the way, ZorinOS also uses the Ubiquity installer.

PeterN · 29 April 2024 17:19

Nice, I wasn't aware of that!

Do you have any idea of whether it is possible to install Zorin using the Ubiquity package for Ubuntu? I wasn't able to figure out any flags or configurations to choose distro when I tried - whatever I did it tried to install Kubuntu.

If installing Zorin by using Ubiquity on the command line works, all Ubuntu raid guides should work for Zorin as well!

zabadabadoo · 30 April 2024 07:36

What I meant is, Ubiquity is the installer used by Zorin in their .iso.
I do not know if it is the same as used by other distro's.