On Friday 07 November 2003 15:23, William Hooper wrote: > David S. Johnson said: > > Albert DE WINT wrote: > >>Is there a way to install the selected packages from the ISO's, > >>previously stored on my Mandrake partition? Or will I have to burn the > >>disks anyway? > >> > >>Thanks for any assistance. > >> > >>Albert > > > > If you mount the first iso file, e.g. "mount -o loop,ro /mnt/cdrom > > /path-to-iso/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" and read through the README file, it > > has directions for creating a directory from the ISOs for an NFS-based > > installation. However, substitute "Fedora" where you find "RedHat" > > referenced in the directions. > > Why not use the "--isodir" switch on redhat-config-packages? Look for the > docs in /usr/share/docs/redhat-config-packages-<version> (sorry, I only > have a RH9 machine here so I can't get the version number). I was wondering why nobody suggested this. If you do "redhat-config-packages --help", you will note that there are two cli options "--isodir=PATH" and "--tree=PATH". Using the --isodir option to point to the directory where you have the iso files stored is a lot easier than trying to figure out where a package is. Unfortunately, you cannot use this for all packages with the current version of redhat-config-packages so you may need to resort to mounting the individual package. Alternatively, you can use up2date to download and install any package ... not just update ones already installed. -- Gene
