On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:54:37PM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: Maybe --verbose? I can't remember if that displays all the individual downloads. In any case it took about 30 minutes for me to get all the packages over my rather slow DSL. Here are the warnings that febootstrap finally displays: febootstrap: warning: some host files are unreadable by non-root febootstrap: warning: get your distro to fix these files: /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/commit_num /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/file_contexts /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/file_contexts.template /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/homedir_template /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/netfilter_contexts /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/seusers.final /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/users_extra /lib64/dbus-1/dbus-daemon-launch-helper /sbin/unix_update /usr/bin/chfn /usr/bin/chsh /usr/libexec/utempter/utempter /usr/sbin/build-locale-archive /usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade.x86_64 /usr/sbin/groupadd /usr/sbin/groupdel /usr/sbin/groupmems /usr/sbin/groupmod /usr/sbin/redhat_lsb_trigger.x86_64 /usr/sbin/suexec /usr/sbin/tzdata-update /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/userdel /usr/sbin/usermod /var/lib/hsqldb/sqltool.rc febootstrap-supermin-helper relies on reading the host files when it reconstructs the appliance, so it has to skip files that aren't readable by non-root (assuming you run the appliance as non-root which is the usual advice). I think all of the above can probably be ignored however. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora