On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 19:51, Filippos Klironomos wrote: > > > > Does anyone know how to begin an install from this way? > > > > If I remember correctly there is an option to give to yum.conf to > include a cdrom or a dir into the searched repository. A 'man yum' > will definitely give you the answer to that. I am away from my machine > so can't go further than that. > > On the other hand this might be an 'apt-get' option so in that case I > would try something like > > [cdrom] > name=Local Repository > baseurl=file:///mnt/dir/fedora/etc/etc/etc/RPMS.os > > into the '/etc/yum.conf' and see what happens. :-) and this worked! at least it upgraded everything. I'll reboot in a sec and confirm I'm at Tettnang. hopefully. lol. what an ordeal! thanks guys. =G