Computer without CDROM and Fedora ISO
Lucian Gabor
luciangabor at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Dec 6 12:55:35 UTC 2003
Hi,
There is a workaround that I used. It involves a little bit of
scripting. These are the steps:
1. mount the isos via loopback
2. create a new folder and link all rpms from the isos there
3. go into that folder and install via rpm -Uvh rpmdb-fedora
4. from that folder you can now install any package from the distro
using rpm -Uvh --aid package-name
if you have enough space on your disk instead of linking at step 2 you
could copy the rpms and this way it wont mater if the isos are mounted
or not.
if you need some help linking those files quickly I could help you with
some scripts
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 09:31, Miroslav Halas wrote:
> Guys,
>
> thank you for your help. THis is the conclusion I have come to.
> There is no way (known to me) how to install additional packages from
> ISOs if they are required as dependency for some other RPM not from the
> ISO (just try to install sapdb and don't use your CDRoms). I have
> successfully mounted the ISOs as CD from loopback, but even then the
> dependency checker wouldn't accept/recognize the path. I have passed
> parameter through the published InstallDruid and SinglePackageWindow
> scripts but that didn't worked. So what worked was to mount the ISOs and
> manually install the dependend packages before I try to install the
> sapdb rpm.
>
> Thanks again for suggestions. I have had to learn much mroe about
> administering Linux tha I really needed to know ;-)
>
> Miro
>
>
>
>
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