> First, please tell me that raid 1 works fine w/fc3 w/no problems It does. There may appear a problem with grub and SATA though - see bugzilla. I had read before but don't know exactly what SATA is only to know that I don't have that technology w/these drives. They just a pair of WD 120GB drives > if that's so, then could you please direct me to documentation on > installing raid 1 during fc install. > > I have no experience w/raid and having trouble finding documentation > that will lead me by the hand and get me thru this. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/s1-diskpartitioning.html this page referred me to the following: software RAID â Creating two or more software RAID partitions allows you to create a RAID device. For more information regarding RAID, refer to the chapter RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide. ....and it's just not there...I could find no chapter there on RAID...the only thing I did find was the beginner's sys admin guide..just a short explanation of the diff, raids etc...NOT an up-to-date HOWTO, shall we say on the specific operating sys. that we talking about ...Enterprise or FC3. I want to note also that I see you help so many on here, Alexander, and that is really commendable and I sure ty for that. john rose -- The only thing Micro$oft has done for society is make people believe that computers are inherently unreliable.