On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:52:03 +0900 John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 20:49 [summer@numbat ~]$ yum --help | grep root > --installroot=[path] set install root > 20:50 [summer@numbat ~]$ That just does what it says - sets the root where yum will install. As near as I can tell though, it doesn't convince yum update to download the proper packages for the version and architecture of the linux located in that root. If it does, the documentation needs more work :-).