I've got the Fedora FC3 installation DVD and (after regular use of up2date, always saving the rpm's) a mass of *.rpm and *.hdr residing in /var/spool/up2date. (Approx 640+ *.rpm and 2300+ *.hdr.) Suppose I want to use the DVD to install FC3 on a 2nd machine. To save an expensive and very time-consuming repeat of up2date, can anybody tell me how to use the contents of /var/spool/up2date (and anything else) to make the installation on the 2nd machine as up to date as that on the 1st, _and_also_ then use an "aware" up2date -- ie. knowledgable of the updates that have already taken place -- for subsequent updates? (Eg, but probably not, copy /var/spool/update/* to a CD, and then on Machine 2 rpm -U /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm maybe?) Thanks, Fergus
