On Friday 03 December 2004 16:36, Paul Howarth wrote: > To get yum to look at your DVD: > > 1. You'll need the "createrepo" package installed. > > 2. Let's say your DVD is mounted at /my/software/lib/fedora/3/dvd > > # cd /my/software/lib/fedora/3 > # createrepo . > > That should result in a directory /my/software/lib/fedora/3/repodata > being created. > > 3. Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and comment out the line: > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core- > $releasever > add a line: > baseurl=file:///my/software/lib/fedora/3 > > Yum should now use your DVD. Thanks for that Paul.I've saved it on my desktop to try a little later. I'm playing with ks installs atm. I've also changed the subject line to help others find it in the arcives. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
