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So I have looked far and wide (but maybe not enough) for the answer. Historically, you could avoid the LiveCD and use the alternateCD / text installer to configure software RAID 1 on two internal disks at the start of install. Apparently this is still working for Ubuntu 20.04 SERVER edition. But I cannot find a solution for the DESKTOP edition as it only seems to come via a LiveCD now. I need displays and TK as the application I am testing in different environments needs that. Am I missing something obvious? Is there a slew of packages I could install to turn a server edition into the desktop?

The computer system has two independent disks and no hardware raid -- either in a controller or in the BIOS. So it has to be setup in software. While I can configure each disk with the partitions expected, I cannot tie them together into a logical RAID volume to present to the Live CD installer. I could do this in earlier editions using the AlternateCD installer. Best I can tell anything but the Live Installer has been deprecated with no intent to support the Alternate in the Desktop release. Ideas? Thanks in advance.

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You are not restricted to using only Ubuntu Server packages just because you installed Ubuntu Server initially.

  1. Install Ubuntu server and configure RAID

  2. Install the desktop GUI components

   $ sudo apt update
   $ sudo apt install tasksel
   $ sudo tasksel install ubuntu-desktop  
   $ reboot

If GUI does not start after the reboot:

$ sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
$ reboot

Credit: https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-20-04-gui-installation

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