Well, after receiving numerous emails with suggestions and help, I've finally got this raid thing setup I just wanted to post and say thanks to all who helped. allan bruno mike surge luca gordon and anyone else that helped that I might have forgotten. This has been a really good experience and I must say that this is one of the best lists that I've ever subscribed to. Anyhow, here's a rundown of what I finally did to get a running system. Hopefully this will help in case another newbie decides to give this a whirl. 1. Installed stock RH 6.0 system using kernel 2.2.5-15 (This kernel has the necessary raid patch) 2. Setup up following partitions using fdisk during install process disk 0: /dev/sda1 16MB /boot 83 linux /dev/sda2 128MB 82 linux swap /dev/sda3 400MB / 83 linux /dev/sda4 5 extended /dev/sda5 500MB fd unknown /dev/sda6 500MB fd unknown /dev/sda7 175MB fd unknown /dev/sda8 175MB fd unknown disk 1: /dev/sdb1 16MB 83 linux /dev/sdb2 128MB 82 linux swap /dev/sdb3 400MB 83 linux /dev/sdb4 5 extended /dev/sdb5 500MB fd unknown /dev/sdb6 500MB fd unknown /dev/sdb7 175MB fd unknown /dev/sdb8 175MB fd unknown (to set the partition type to fd, type the command 't', select the partition you want to change and type 'fd' when prompted for the Hex code) 3. Finish installation process. 4. Reboot system. 5. Login as root 6. Install raidtools-0.90-3.i386.rpm from the distro CD 7. Setup /etc/raidtab per instructions from http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.txt for raid 1 8. run 'mkraid /dev/md0' 9. run 'mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/md0 10. run 'mkinitrd --with=raid1 /boot/initrd 2.2.5-15 11. edit /etc/lilo.conf - change line 'initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img' to 'initrd=/boot/initrd' 12. run 'lilo' 13. Reboot system 14. Login as root 15. run 'cat /proc/mdstat' and it should show an active raid setup Thanks again for all the help. Now to setup a bootable raid setup. :)