> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Seyman > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 18:44 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: How to update RPM's from ISO images after hard > driveinstallation > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 06:24:46PM +0200, Peter De Jager wrote: > > > > I have already tried to mount my iso images using loopback > and it does > > work (as in, it does mount), but it still does not solve my > problem. > > E.g. once an ISO is mounted and available, when I install > an RPM the > > installer still asks me for a CD (e.g. Disc 3) and there is > still no > > option to browse to the mounted ISO image (without inserting a > > physical CD I cannot proceed). So what I need to know is > how to point > > Linux to a location where the installation files (or ISO's) > are stored > > so that I do not get prompted to insert CD's. Is there a > config file somewhere that I need to edit? > > You can tell yum to use a repository on your filesystem. > Mount your CDs using loopback then create a configuration > file for yum. > It should look something like this: > > [CD1-loop] > name=Fedora Core CD 1 > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > baseurl=url://path/to/the/CD/contents/ > > [CD2-loop] > name=Fedora Core CD 2 > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > baseurl=url://path/to/the/CD/contents/ > > [CD3-loop] > name=Fedora Core CD 3 > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > baseurl=url://path/to/the/CD/contents/ > > [CD4-loop] > name=Fedora Core CD 4 > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > baseurl=url://path/to/the/CD/contents/ > > Disable the Fedora repository by editing > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora and changing the line: > > enabled=1 > > to: > > enabled=0 > > and yum will use your mounted images to get the rpms from the CD. > > Emmanuel > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Many thanks Emmanuel. I've had a look at yum (both man and Internet) and there is a very useful article which explains the process of setting up a yum repository in detail. For anyone else who might be interested, it's at: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_article/yum_article/node14.html In the end I only used yum for installing and did not set up my own repository because they say that setting up a static repository from ISO's will prevent yum from managing package updates to keep your system current. All is working now, even my .NET code is running perfectly under Mono! Happiness ;-) Thanks to everyone for the help. Pete.
