Paul Howarth wrote: >> I'd certainly be interested to hear the simplest way to do this, >> eg I'd like to run "yum groupinstall" from the CDs >> from a working FC5 system. > > I going to try to update my "Yum Repo from Images" HOWTO to include > using CD ISO images for those people that don't have the DVD ISO. As I > don't have the CD ISOs myself though, there's a bit of information I > need: where is the comps.xml file? On the DVD ISO it can be found in the > "repodata" directory and has the following MD5SUM (i386): > > 3c64b01ab4602f6a07dc47e26e96326f comps.xml > > Is that on CD1 in the same place? Is it the same file? There is certainly a file comps.xml there, and it has the same md5sum: [tim@elizabeth disk]$ ls repodata/ comps.xml filelists.xml.gz other.xml.gz primary.xml.gz repomd.xml TRANS.TBL [tim@elizabeth disk]$ cd repodata/ [tim@elizabeth repodata]$ md5sum comps.xml 3c64b01ab4602f6a07dc47e26e96326f comps.xml -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland