just to elaborate more on my previous post, i get the following warning on installation: warning: this system has at least one hard disk with a raid configuration presented by the bios as raid that is in fact a software raid. the following disks were detected as part of such a raid: /dev/hda /dev/sda /dev/sdc the linux kernel 2.4 supported some of these systems (like promise fastrack and highpoint rocketraid). but the linux kernel 2.6 does not support them at all. if you install onto these disks, your raid configuration and any data on the raid will be lost- refer to http://portal.suse.com to learn how to migrate to a linux software raid. the thing is that, ive got 6 drives plugged in, 2 ide and 4 sata on an msi k8n diamond. some of these drives were in use in various scenarios of which one was on an asus k7v880 mobo running on via raid with windows. now i used knoppix and used fdisk to repartition the disks just to make sure, but still on boot i get that warning, how can i resolve or fix that? -- Regards -RP- ___________________________ If computers were made in heaven, would they be perfect? ___________________________