According to Johnny: > when using RPM to install centos-release initially ... use the --root > function like this: > > rpm -ivh --root $LIVE centos-release > This trick, immediately followed by the "yum -c $LIVE/etc/yum.conf --installroot=$LIVE install yum" stanza, seems to work for me on an up-to-date Centos 4.3 system. I am still in the process of yumming the rest of the system in... Thank you lots everyone -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060815/30d7788c/attachment-0005.html>