Ubuntu 9.10 Build Notes PDF Print E-mail

I've been running the latest development build of Ubuntu 9.10 since July, and through several issues (including a few that required me to build a new clean image), I have developed a good set of notes that I use to rebuild.

 

First, I build a new clean image from the Ubuntu.com website.

 

The Ubuntu 9.10 Beta is currently available:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/beta

 

The Daily Build is available here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/

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Alternative Drive Image Tools PDF Print E-mail

I purchased a Drobo 4-bay array, the network companion device, and 4 1TB drives. This gives me 2.71TB effective storage with the redundancy of RAID 5. Now that I can start consolidating data, I'm free to rebuild this machine (Windows XP), my test machine (Ubuntu 8.10), and one of my laptops (Ubuntu 8.10). I downloaded Ubuntu 9.04 and built a clean Ubuntu box to aid in disk imaging.


In an attempt to try a few alternate methods of imaging, decided to try the following:

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Install the Latest Version of Wine PDF Print E-mail

Here's the easiest way to get the latest version of wine (currently 1.1.5):

Open a terminal window and type the following:
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

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Create Exact Disk Images in Ubuntu PDF Print E-mail

To create an exact disk image of one drive to a flat file, the most efficient (and scriptable) way is to use the dd command. From my experience, the block size doesn't matter much, but I'd recommend using either 32768 or 1M as noted in examples below:

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Install Grub Bootloader PDF Print E-mail

After several failed attempts at making a working, bootable exact disk image, I learned that it's necessary to reinstall the Grub bootloader after restoring from a disk image.

Since I'm booting Ubuntu on the system I used to restore the disk image to a keychain drive, I was concerned that I would accidentally select the wrong disk when writing the image. To solve this problem

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