Partitioner does not recognise my raid

[Highlordbob]

I am completely new to anything besides Windows and would like to give Ubuntu a try but I cannot get the installer to recognise my raid 0. I am not sure what the raid driver is but its the Intel controller on a evga x58 classified mobo.

[darkod]

For raid you need what is called Alternate Install CD, not the standard desktop cd.
Get it here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/

Alternate install CD

The alternate install CD allows you to perform certain specialist installations of Ubuntu. It provides for the following situations:


setting up automated deployments;
upgrading from older installations without network access;
LVM and/or RAID partitioning;
installs on systems with less than about 256MB of RAM (although note that low-memory systems may not be able to run a full desktop environment reasonably).

Note that the alternate installer is text based. During the install process you will not have a GUI, just text based screens. The system that will be installed will have the standard desktop GUI.

For fakeraid (motherboard bios raid), also read this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto

[Highlordbob]

Should i create a partition in windows first so that i cant accidentally mess up windows or should i just let the partitioner do this for me, because i still want to keep my windows running duel boot.

[Highlordbob]

Ok i decided just to go ahead and try to install it but when i get to the partitioner it does not show me any partitions and skips all the menus. It goes strait to asking me if i want to finalize and shows nothing where the list of partitions should be.