Here are some notes I wrote down when I wanted to install some SW from my DVD. Probably the simplest thing would be to go read http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1055 which is what inspired this particular note. Hope this helps... --wpd 6) Found http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1055, which describes how to force pirut to use the installation CDs instead of network repositories. Based on that, I commented out the following line from /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo: mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever and replaced it with: ## Changed by wpd 07/17/06 to load from the DVD instead of the network baseurl=file:///media/disk But pirut still seemed to look for the network. Some more tweaking is in order.