From your previous message, I came up with 5 possibilities to test: These two work: baseurl=file:///mnt/net/rocketj/install-disks/FedoraCore/FC1 baseurl=file:/mnt/net/rocketj/install-disks/FedoraCore/FC1 These three don't work: baseurl=file://mnt/net/rocketj/install-disks/FedoraCore/FC1 baseurl=file://./mnt/net/rocketj/install-disks/FedoraCore/FC1 baseurl=/mnt/net/rocketj/install-disks/FedoraCore/FC1 The three failures give different messages, but all three give up without doing harm. >> NFS might actually be more efficient. << I can't guess at that. My NFS export machine is 4-10 times faster than my little local web server. The 100Mbs ethernet may be the slow part for both. Regardless, I'll pick: baseurl=http://192.168.1.5/yum/FC1/base because the boxes that "visit" my shop net won't need network setup changes in order to upgrade or install something. I'll finish looking at your article soon. Cliff Kent
