Well,.. After re-reading several HotTo's and Faq's again I figured out how to do it. Specifically http://linas.org/linux/Software-RAID/Software-RAID.html is very informative. I didnt realize I couldn't mount the partitions and use them for /var /home, ect, until after raid has been setup so I figured out that first install on one partition and then create raid devices and move the /var /home and other directories over (rename them.. mount partition, move stuff over). I still dont know why multidisk/raid support wasn't enabled in /etc/mdstat but have to do a reinstall anyway so maybe I missed it the first time. Thanks, Kevin Adams