adding new packages
David S. Johnson
dsjohnson at adelphia.net
Fri Nov 7 17:43:58 UTC 2003
David S. Johnson wrote:
> Albert DE WINT wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed Fedora Core 1 from ISO's previously downloaded on my
>> Mandrake partition. I did not actually burn the disks. (It's a waste of
>> CDROM's)
>>
>> Now I would like to add some packages. (I may need some tools and
>> libraries to compile an OSS sound module and to have the
>> nVidia-installer compile a 3D driver.)
>>
>> After selecting the packages, the Fedora installer requests to insert
>> the 1st CDROM, which obviously I don't have.
>> 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
>>
>>
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>>
> 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.
>
Oops. "mount -o loop,ro /path-to-iso/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom"
will work much better ;-)
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