hi... exactly what does this do??? google doesn't give any good insight... i have a server where there's not alot of room/space on the default '/' dir structure... i'd like to be able to have yum install the FC3 files to another dir... is this the function of --installdir ???? when i set --installdir up.. and ran 'yum --installdir=/foo upgrade' i got an err stating that there was no /foo/var/yum.log file... which i would suspect to have been written by the yum app... thanks.. bruce