Package: debian-installer Version: 1.0rc-1 Sarge netinst When installing on a soft raid array, mkinitrd needs a valid raidtab. The package to install is mdadm (but the error message says it needs raidtools2 (bug reported to initrd-tools ). Installing raidtools2 does not create the raidtab. So if raid is used, the mdadm package must be installed prior installing the kernel. SEb -- Sebastien Chaumat <schaumat@debian.org>