Patrick wrote a rather confusing e-mail with both top and bottom posting depending on who was quoting whom. And he didn't trim irrelevant text... He quoted Dan saying: > Pirut and pup use internet yum repos by default. You can add a file > /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo with the baseurl of your DVD/CD drive, and > disable the rest (enabled=0), if you really want to install stuff from > there. and asked: > If you do that with the base-repo and keep the updates-repo intact, > wouldn't it install the basefiles from cd/dvd and the updates from > internet? This is true. But it will want to load metadata for the updates-repo from the Internet before it will install from the local repo. On a machine without Internet access, this could be a problem... James. -- E-mail address: james | "We completely deny the allegations, and we're @westexe.demon.co.uk | trying to identify the alligators."