wubi and raid 0

[waynezo]

My system,
Athlon XP2400 cpu
Gigabyte GA-7vaxp Rev 1.1 mb with promise onboard raid controller Bios Award F8
Serial No. : 010471933173101421sn0240904160
Kingston value ram 1536mb DDR pc3200 400mhz
Dual 80gig maxtor hd's 7200rpm ata 133 raid 0
Seagate 500GB and 250GB external hard drives
Artec 16X DVD-ROM
Cyberdrive 40X16X48 CDRW
Verbatim 2.4X DVD+RW/R
Liteon Superallwrite lightscribe 16/48 DVD/CDRW
ATI all in wonder 8500dv AGP primary video card
Radeon 9250 256MB PCI Secondary video card
2 HANNS-G 28" High Def LCD Monitor HG281
2 Hyundai 19" LCD Imagequest Monitors L90D+
Antec 430 watt true power ps
Ahanix platinum xp steel case
Windows XP Home sp2
PC Tools antivirus
Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall 4.3
Westell Versalink 327 WDK DSL Gateway
Bellsouth DSL running @ 3 Mbps

I want to instal wubi ubuntu since it doesn't partition my windows drive, but I understand it doesn't work with raid 0. I have a seagate 250 gig external drive. Could I instal to that drive? When I leave that drive on my bios will try to boot to it. If I can't get wubi on my windows c drive (raid 0). I would like to get unbuntu installed on my external drive. lastly I have multiple monitors. Will this cause problems?

Any advise will be greatly appreciated.

[waynezo]

found VMware and installed virtual ubuntu 8.04. So far works great except playing shared media files from windows. My new question is, would there be any advantage to having a physical copy on the harddrive?

[#43 fan]

I believe you would get better performance with a physical installation.
If you install that other drive, there won't be a boot conflict, because the Raid 0 drive is set to boot.
If you do install that other drive, why not have a pure installation of Ubuntu? Ubuntu will dual boot with Windows.