Apologies for the delay in replying, but have been away for the
weekend.

Thank you for the great advice. It seems that much of the partitioning
information available is a little outdated? (Too many partitions?)

This information may be a little late, but in case you're still out
there.

The disks are 36GB each.

I was planning on doing two seperate installs, but after Stefan's
comments think I'll do my Kernel compilations in the main distro, i.e.
multi-boot on the same 'partition'.

I am convinced that performance would be best by having one disk
dedicated to video, but on the other hand I suppose it will be mostly
reading or writing depending on if I'm copying from/to tape...

Think, I'll use Grub instead of Lilo.

A general question re software raid 0 (which is the option I have). I
wanted to use as much of the diskspace available for video, i.e. after
installing Linux, combine all the remaining space into one logical
mount.

This obviously isn't an ideal set-up for Video editing, but it the
hardware I have ...

Thanks
Leon