On Wed, 19 May 2004, seth vidal wrote: > the package rpm makes the rpm users Ok, this sequence seems to work: yum -y -c $MASTER/etc/yum.conf -d1 --installroot=$MASTER install rpm yum -y -c $MASTER/etc/yum.conf -d1 --installroot=$MASTER install filesystem yum -y -c $MASTER/etc/yum.conf -d1 --installroot=$MASTER install basesystem yum -y -c $MASTER/etc/yum.conf -d1 --installroot=$MASTER install yum And, Pine does a wordwrap when I paste. Thanks for the help. This is looking really good. Now, for a more philosophical question: How do you prefer to arrange your yum repositories? I've just started putting them together in the same format as the fedora.us, but I'm not sure if there is a more appropriate arrangement. -- Matt The American Non-Sequiteur Society: We may not make sense, but we do like pizza.