hi, 1) first dump ur linux DVD to /var/ftp/pub location. 2) install vsftpd rpm. rpm -ivh <package> 3) install createrepo package which is there in /var/ftp/pub/Server
*creating repository:* 4) createrepo -g /var/ftp/pub/Server/repodata/comps-xxxx.xml /var/ftp/pub/Server 5) it takes some time to create repository 6) if it says remove .olddata remove that. 7)#yum clean all *editing yum configuration:* vim /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-debuginfo.repo make sure u have these lines in ur configuration. [core] name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug baseurl=ftp://10.193.185.98/pub/Server enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release save it. #yum clean all #service vsftpd restart. #chkconfig --level 345 vsftpd on that's it ur done. try installl some package. #yum install iptraf* -y ex: -- thnx & regards balakrishna [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]