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Upgrade: Ubuntu 14.04 To Ubuntu 16.04

Hi Reese From : It took me 6-8 hours to finish the upgrade. It's a very slow connection today, of all  days. Xenial is looking sharp and beautiful. I did not encounter any problems with the upgrade. I'm downloading the image through the torrents. I figure I should help out with the others who are downloading a fresh ubuntu. -- Donato Roque @ubuntu1604 mobile#+63-9185721710 I'm on twitter and facebook . Check out my blog . Consider using my PGP keys for privacy.

Part 2 - From Fedora 23 To Ubuntu 14.04 lts

Hi Reese I followed some tutorials for creating RAID and filesystem then mounting the RAID disks to an existing installation of linux. I checked the configuration files for mdadm and fstab. I found nothing or so I thought. I printed out results for fdisk and raid scan. It turns out I had copied the wrong UUID for the RAID in my fstab file. Didn't know that you can create a RAID level 5 with just two disks though. Of course for practical purposes it's not RAID 5 but a RAID 1, two disks mirroring each other because the parity are on two disks. I'm adding another disk further on - maybe a spare disk later after that. -- Donato Roque @ubuntu1404lts mobile#+63-9185721710 I'm on twitter and facebook . Check out my blog . Consider using my PGP keys for privacy.

From Fedora 23 To Ubuntu 14.04 lts

Hi Reese My project took me from using Fedora 23 to being unable to boot  my PC to reinstalling the operating system to finally using  Ubuntu 14.04 like a lifeboat.  I was working on converting an old RAID 0 set up to a more  robust RAID 5. RAID 5 will give me a chance to swap a replacement hard drive for a failing one without, I had hoped, losing uptime and data. After booting on a live cd to prepare the devices and create the RAID, I tried to boot Fedora. No go. It kept shoving me to "rescue mode". Uh-oh. I checked the RAID and it's clean and  active. There's nothing wrong with the RAID or the conversion . I checked the configuration files for mdadm and fstab. I don't see anything odd. This is when I spent a lot of time googling. None of the fixes I read worked.   -- Donato Roque @ubuntu1404lts mobile#+63-9185721710 I'm on twitter and facebook . Check out my blog . Consider using my PGP keys for privacy.