--- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:26 -0800, Johnny Smith > wrote: > > I have a Dell laptop on which I have installed > FC3. > > > > It has no cdrom.... I managed to get FC3 > installed by > > copying the FC3 ISO's to a partition on the laptop > and > > changing the grub.conf on the previoous install to > > allow me to boot to the partition. > > > > My problem is that I need to install gcc > > and package manager can't seem to remember where > it > > installed FC3 from [/dev/hda5]. > > > > I tried mounting /dev/hda5 on /media/cdrom but the > > package manager didn't find it. > > > > Where would I find the conifg file for package > manager > > that controls the source directory???? > > > > PS.. what is the 'command line' command to bring > up > > PackageManager form a window? > > > > Thanks a lot in advance.. > > Trying to get a wlan card working > > # system-config-packages --tree=/path/to/tree > > Paul. Thanks Paul for trying to help I created /media/cdrom and mounted /dev/hda5 using mount /dev/hda5 /media/cdrom Then I opened a window and did at the commamd line system-config-packages --tree=/media/cdrom I got the gui's error message that the location didn't appear to hold a proper cd What could I try next? thanks Johnny __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
