RE: How to update RPM's from ISO images after hard driveinstallation

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To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:08:48 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] 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
>
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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.

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