> There are three big area's where doing it via yum is useful. Sounds like this is the way I want to go (after a good backup). You may want to add a step to your how-to to edit the yum.conf file. When I followed your instructions (yum was not installed), and tried to run step 4, this happened: [root@fcsftp /root]# yum update yum Gathering package information from servers Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.1 base Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "yummain.py", line 144, in main File "clientStuff.py", line 688, in get_package_info_from_servers File "clientStuff.py", line 128, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad ValueError: unpack list of wrong size There is no 7.1 directory in http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/, so I changed /etc/yum.conf, and replaced all instances of $releasever with 7.3 and $basearch with i386, then I successfully ran "yum update yum". I'm assuming that since I am upgrading to 7.3, this is correct. Please verify. Thanks!! Doug Confidential: This electronic message and all contents contain information from Financial Credit Services which may be privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. The information is intended to be for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, copy, distribution or use of the contents of this message is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify the sender and destroy the original message and all copies. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list