It never worked, and I couldn't get Ubuntu working.
Now, I have a problem installing XP Pro!
Whenever I put a Disc in (after installation is done), it says that it can't recognize the disc, and the options are Cancel, Try Again, and Continue, and no matter what I choose, the same screen stays up! Huge problem.
Help?
Sounds like your drive is bunk, or your CD is bunk.
Ati drivers really shouldn't be a terribly huge issue with the current uBuntu. As long as its a "common" card the drivers should work. The problems mainly arise from uncommon cards or mobility cheapo cards.
If you're doing a clean install anyways, I'd say if you're interested, drop raid 0 for a little while to learn the ins and outs of linux and windows, you'll get a better peace of mind when screwing with things, and you won't actually... lose performance in your games because raid 0 doesn't really help much if any in most cases.
Btw to make a bootable /boot partition, and you're using the graphical installer (console should do it too, just a little harder to do by hand) should give you either the option to make a custom partition layout, or a few preset layouts.
IIRC the "normal" linux partition setup is like a 50mb /boot, a 256-300mb /swap and then the rest as /.
Though I see more and more things going back to the "common" single root partition.
Might have to help him later to get it stable. For now he will be fine but later... problems.
Stability isn't and never was the problem with Ati drivers, the problem normally is managing to get the 3d drivers installed and working properly. Once thats accomplished you shouldn't even have to think twice about stability.
On my two identical 250 GB drives, I created two 1 GB swap partitions, two +150 GB partitions (to become a raid0 array fro my /home space), and two +40 GB partitions (to become a raid 0 array for my root space), all inside an extended partition at the end of my drives. I then also created a small 500 MB partition on the first drive, which would become my /boot space. I left the rest of the space on my drives for ntfs partitions.
You can't make the partitions you need in windows. (No "extended partitions" in linux
Unless you're talking about EXT3 from in linux, perhaps. )
