On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > Since I've not yet attempted to set yum up, I'll be pleasantly > surprised if it does anything right. Sure be ignorant. But don't pass judgment - and advice in that state. > > rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY > > rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > > Thanks for that. Done that, looks like Yum is doing something, but > not what I want. Its going too slowly to be reading my DVD> Yum doesn't look at your DVD. It goes over the net to the mirrorlist specified in the default configs. The default mirrorlists are all over the world - reconfigure them to a more suitable values. (so thing are faster) > I responded to your earlier email on the basis you were telling _me_ > what _I_ would do: one of the problems with English is one can't > always understand whether a speaker means "you the person" or ""you > the group," and I interpreted you differently from what I would have > meant. I guss my initail sugestion was for the OP - to use yum - instead of mounting/searching each CDs one at a time - as you sugested. Satish
