Sorry - yet another mail. I've finally got the md devices to be recognised, and not overwitten. However, no matter what I do, yast seems to want to mount the individual devices which make up the raid devices as /data1 - /data3. I've event tried <mount></mount> for each of the partitions, which is ignored by yast. Thanks Jeremy My current configuration file is below <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd"> <profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns"> <configure> <online_update> <autoget config:type="boolean">false</autoget> <enable_autoupdate config:type="boolean">true</enable_autoupdate> <update_time> <hour config:type="integer">6</hour> <minute config:type="integer">0</minute> </update_time> </online_update> <runlevel> <default>3</default> </runlevel> </configure> <install> <general> <clock> <hwclock>UTC</hwclock> <timezone>Europe/London</timezone> </clock> <keyboard> <keymap>english-uk</keymap> </keyboard> <language>en_GB</language> <mode> <confirm config:type="boolean">true</confirm> <forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot> </mode> <mouse> <id>probe</id> </mouse> </general> <!-- This is where we describe the drives and partitions --> <partitioning config:type="list"> <!-- /dev/md0 = root --> <drive> <device>/dev/md</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">xfs</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">0</partition_nr> <raid_options> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> <!-- /dev/md1 = swap --> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <raid_options> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> <!-- /dev/md2 = /soft3 --> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">xfs</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <mount>/soft3</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <raid_options> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> </partitions> <use>selected</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/hda</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <!-- Root device --> <partition> <raid_name>/dev/md0</raid_name> <raid_type>raid</raid_type> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> </partition> <!-- Swap --> <partition> <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name> <raid_type>raid</raid_type> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> </partition> <!-- /soft3 --> <partition> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid</raid_type> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> </partition> </partitions> <use>selected</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/hdb</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <!-- Root device --> <partition> <raid_name>/dev/md0</raid_name> <raid_type>raid</raid_type> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> </partition> <!-- Swap --> <partition> <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name> <raid_type>raid</raid_type> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> </partition> <!-- /soft3 --> <partition> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid</raid_type> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> </partition> </partitions> <use>selected</use> </drive> </partitioning> <software> <addons config:type="list"> <addon>Base-System</addon> <!-- <addon>Basis-Sound</addon> --> <addon>Kde-Desktop</addon> <addon>Linux-Tools</addon> <addon>Print-Server</addon> <addon>SuSE-Documentation</addon> <addon>X11</addon> <addon>YaST2</addon> <addon>auth</addon> <addon>Basis-Devel</addon> <addon>analyze</addon> </addons> <base>default</base> <packages config:type="list"> <package>apache2</package> <package>apache2-devel</package> <package>apache2-doc</package> <package>apache2-mod_perl</package> <package>apache2-mod_php4</package> <package>apache2-mod_python</package> <package>apache2-prefork</package> <package>dhcp-server</package> <package>php4-bcmath</package> <package>php4-bz2</package> <package>php4-calendar</package> <package>php4-ctype</package> <package>php4-curl</package> <package>php4-dba</package> <package>php4-devel</package> <package>php4-domxml</package> <package>php4-exif</package> <package>php4-ftp</package> <package>php4-gd</package> <package>php4-gettext</package> <package>php4-imap</package> <package>php4-ldap</package> <package>php4-mbstring</package> <package>php4-mcal</package> <package>php4-mcrypt</package> <package>php4-mhash</package> <package>php4-mime_magic</package> <package>php4-pgsql</package> <package>php4-snmp</package> <package>php4-sockets</package> <package>php4-zlib</package> <package>postgresql</package> <package>postgresql-server</package> <package>squid</package> </packages> </software> </install> </profile>