HI Vince- The installation method you mentioned sounds fine to me. Personally, I prefer setting the package in the hive next to 5 frames and setting the queen cage right there on top of the package where the bees are exiting (adjacent to feeder-can hole). No dumping, squashing, or en masse-disoriented flight. The bees naturally go "up" to exit and so come in contact with q cage right away to keep her warm. If you do invert the cage over the inner cover, I'd make sure the q cage is right near where they will be coming down into the hive. Probably between 2 frames right under the inner cover hole, candy end up. You'll have to devise a way to make sure the q cage doesn't fall down in between the frames as you reassemble the hive and plunk on the package proper. (It might be tricky to invert the package over the inner cover hole without dumping some bees which will get mashed and not be able to make it down thru the hole as the package will cover it.) I've never trusted direct release of queen, just seems risky, but I do make a good nail hole thru candy in cage unless alot of the candy is already gone. Let me know how your method works out... and if you try direct queen release. I hope the new bees get you a bumper crop their first season. Joel P.S. You probably are already planning this, but 2-4 weeks after installation give each package colony a frame or two of sealed brood with bees from your established hives (which by then could use some "pruning" against swarming anyway). It will really give the new ones a great boost, and help them over the population crash that occurs before the new queens' youngsters start emerging.