Software on Instalation CD

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Vladimir Kovacevic wrote:
> Hi,
> After installing Fedora8 i386 how can I acces aditional programs on 
> instalation DVD?
> I tried without success:
> * Butting again from instalation DVD and go to System update, but there 
> is no option to add aditional software.
> * From: Applications -> Add/Remove Software but than I get "Retrieving 
> software information" window which stays like
> that for a large period of time. Even with existance of Internet 
> connection I receive Unhandled exeption...
> 
> Is this some kind of a bug, and is there a solution?
> 
> Vlada
> 
> 
You can ad a repo for the DVD. Or you can replace the URL in the 
base repo with the DVD. This is not created by default because not 
everyone installs from a DVD, or keeps the DVD in the drive.

I have used a slightly different method in the past. I have the DVD 
image on the hard drive. I use a loopback mount to mount it on 
/var/www/html/Fedora. I then use that directory for the address of a 
repo.

In /etc/fstab:
/shared/Fedora-8.iso /var/www/html/Fedora auto loop,ro 0 0

dvd.repo:
[fedora-dvd]
name=Fedora-DVD $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=file:///var/www/html/Fedora
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GP

Mikkel
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