adding packages from original install location

[Paul Howarth]

Patrick Doyle wrote:
> Here are some notes I wrote down when I wanted to install some SW from
> my DVD.  Probably the simplest thing would be to go read
> http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1055 which is what inspired this
> particular note.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> --wpd
> 
> 
> 6) Found http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1055, which describes how to
>    force pirut to use the installation CDs instead of network
>    repositories.  Based on that, I commented out the following line
>    from /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo:
> 
> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever 
> 
> 
>    and replaced it with:
> 
> ## Changed by wpd 07/17/06 to load from the DVD instead of the network
> baseurl=file:///media/disk
> 
>    But pirut still seemed to look for the network.  Some more
>    tweaking is in order.

There's also this article that I wrote, which covers FC3 and FC4 as well 
as FC5, and also the use of CD ISO images if you have those instead of 
the DVD ISO:

http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages

Paul.