Ok ... I am building a new machine and I want to set up RAID right at the start. I am installing SUSE 9 because one of the software packages I need to use is supported on SUSE 9 ... so I can not change to another distro - not an option. I have 4 - 250 GB Maxtor SATA drives hooked up in the system. I would either like Raid 0+1 or Raid 5 ... basically for redundancy in the event one of the drives fails. I am to the point in YAST where I need to partition the hard drives. I am fine with the idea that I can put /swap on one of the drives and not have it part of the RAID system. But ... I would like to be able have /boot and / all part of the raid system .. where all of the important stuff is at ... I have a feeling though that /boot might not be able to be part of the raid setup? So ... anyone out there been through this before and have some suggestions for me? I guess it would be nice to have LVM set up and RAID ... but I keep trying to set it up ... but to no avail. I have looked at the raid how-tos ... but most of those seem for after the fact and not for you while you are setting up and installing the OS for the first time. Thoughts? Suggestions? Randy