So I got around to backing up the boot drive in my server and proceeded to format it so I could play with Ubuntu Server 7.10. I’d been thoroughly impressed by the experience I had under the desktop version, so I expected much the same from the server version too. In the end, it didn’t go quite as smooth as I expected, but to be fair none of the problems were really Ubuntu’s fault. Following is a bit of a long-winded description of what not to do if you plan on running a system with either software RAID, or bridged network cards.
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