I have a php script which can make the contents of the DVD available via http. With one download and one lot of disk space, you can have the DVD image and a web install (without the hassle of loop mounting the image).
If you are interested let me know.
John.
Keith Christian wrote:
----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Pryor tlviewer@yahoo.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 11:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 - Yum install using the install cd's as the RPM source
Keith, --- Keith Christian keithchristian@yahoo.com wrote:
What is the mechanism or procedure for installing additional packages from the six CentOS 5.0 CD's using Yum, assuming a secured server with no outside internet connection?
Debian based distributions are able to use the package manager to search for and install from the CD's, and I'm looking for the CentOS equivalent.
Obviously, it's possible to install "manually" from a CD with:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom cd /media/cdrom/CentOS rpm -U foobar-1.2.3.-4.5.el5.i386.rpmYum has such good dependency checking I'd like to know of a way to use it if possible.
Checkout the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
there are several pre-set mount points for your ISO mounts. For my DVD I use /mnt/repo
I see above you have the right mount for an ISO. Then to point YUM to your media repo use #yum install SomeRPM --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=c5-media
if you want to ban external access, the disablerepo token is the key.