Carlos Santana wrote: > Well, I wish I could use DVD but my VMware server does not support it. > It has an option only for CD ROM. :( > > I may not go for the second option (up-to-date with rsync) in order to > get consistent installations. Although having latest code is nice, its > not our requirement for this project. > > - > CS. > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Kwan Lowe<kwan.lowe at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks nate. >>> So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3? >>> >>> >> It's much easier to grab the DVD iso and use that instead. There are a >> couple approaches: >> >> 1) Loopback mount the DVD iso to an FTP/HTTP accessible filesystem. Very >> quick and painless. >> >> 2) Copy the CD/DVD iso contents to a standard filesystem. If you do this it >> allows you to copy the update RPMs to the same location, then use the >> repository tools to create the repo meta-data. This method allows you to >> install the latest version at once. >> >> For the first case: >> mount -o loop /path/to/5.3_DVD.iso /var/ftp/pub/centos_5.3_x86 >> >> Your kickstart url would look like: >> >> url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86/ >> >> >> In the second case, follow the instructions here: >> http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hi Carlos, What version of VMware are you using ? I can confirm that if you are using VMware Infrastructure 3 you can mount both DVD and CD ISO's and just reference /dev/cdrom I believe this is the same for all other versions of VMware as well but I have not confirmed this. You should definitely be able to access DVD's easily from VMware Good Luck