adding new packages

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 7 20:23:59 UTC 2003


David S. Johnson said:
> Albert DE WINT wrote:
>>Is there a way to install the selected packages from the ISO's,
>>previously stored on my Mandrake partition?  Or will I have to burn the
>>disks anyway?
>>
>>Thanks for any assistance.
>>
>>Albert
> If you mount the first iso file, e.g. "mount -o loop,ro /mnt/cdrom
> /path-to-iso/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" and read through the README file, it
> has directions for creating a directory from the ISOs for an NFS-based
> installation.  However, substitute "Fedora" where you find "RedHat"
> referenced in the directions.

Why not use the "--isodir" switch on redhat-config-packages?  Look for the
docs in /usr/share/docs/redhat-config-packages-<version> (sorry, I only
have a RH9 machine here so I can't get the version number).

-- 
William Hooper





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