[CentOS] New packages installation via CDRom

[John R Pierce]

Adriano dos Santos Vieira wrote:
> Matt Hyclak escreveu:
>> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 02:24:34PM -0300, Adriano dos Santos Vieira 
>> enlightened us:
>>  
>>> Does anyone knows how could I install some new packages on CentOS (4 
>>> and 5) using the cdrom media?
>>>
>>> Att: My HD doesn't have much space to copy cdrom content to build a 
>>> filesystem repository.
>>>
>>> I hope this great tool will should ask me by each cdrom witch it 
>>> need, isn't it?
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Look at the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo. The comments at 
>> the top
>> should get you going.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>   
> My appologizies, by my poor English and by my mistakes trying to 
> explain you this.
>
> I just looked on that file. That one explain how to use DVD. If I'm 
> not wrong that process sounds like a filesystem, isn't it?
>
> What about CDRom? I've a CDR-drive, thense I've 6 CDs (centos-5) media 
> and I want to use them to install some new packages. Once again, how 
> could I do this on CentOS?

if you got the disk space, copy the RPMS directories off all the CDs 
into one directory, then copy that CentOS-Media.repo file to a new one, 
edit it, give it a new tag (CentOS-LocalCopy, or something) and adjust 
the path to point to your conglomeration dir...