On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:29:04PM -0300, Adriano dos Santos Vieira enlightened us: > 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? > You can use yum with the example in that file to install. You could also just use RPM directly - i.e. mount CDRom, rpm -Uvh /media/cdrom/RPMS/blah.rpm, unmount CD, but that will not prompt you for the appropriate CD like you asked in the first message. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263