----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Pryor <tlviewer at yahoo.com> To: centos at 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 at 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.rpm > > Yum 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. -- Mark Hi Mark, Thanks for the info, I'll put it in my hints file. =========Keith