how2 point Package Manager to directory rather than cdrom

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:26 -0800, Johnny Smith wrote:
> I have a Dell laptop on which I have installed FC3.
> 
> It has no cdrom....  I managed to get FC3 installed by
> copying the FC3 ISO's to a partition on the laptop and
> changing the grub.conf on the previoous install to
> allow me to boot to the partition.
> 
> My problem is that I need to install gcc
> and package manager can't seem to remember  where it
> installed FC3 from [/dev/hda5].
> 
> I tried mounting /dev/hda5 on /media/cdrom but the
> package manager didn't find it.
> 
> Where would I find the conifg file for package manager
> that controls the source directory????
> 
> PS.. what is the 'command line' command to bring up
> PackageManager form a window?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance..
> Trying to get a wlan card working

# system-config-packages --tree=/path/to/tree

Paul.
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