> For stripping version numbers, maybe something like: > rpm -qa | sed -e 's/-[0-9][0-9]*.*$//' arg! Don't do this! Try rpm -qa --qf "%{name}\n" and read the rpm man page An other source of errors may be non RH RPMS installed on your maschine you want to clone. The installer can only install RPMs included in the RH distribution. If you added only one non RH RPM (an NVIDIA driver perhaps) the install will fail. cu Florian Festi