installation of additional packages

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Friday 07 November 2003 17:56, Albert DE WINT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Fedora from ISO's downloaded on a Mandrake partition.  I did
> not burn the disks. (It's a waste of CDROM's)
>
> The initial installation of Fedora Core went fine.
>
> Now I would like to add some packages.  (I may need some development
> tools to compile an OSS sound module and to have the nVidia installer
> compile a 3D driver.)
>
> After selecting the packages, Fedora installer requests to insert the
> 1st CDROM, which obviously I don't have.
>
> How can I get the packages from the ISO's, previously stored on my other
> linux partition?  Will I have to burn these ISO disks anyway?
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Albert

Can you 'mount -o loop,ro /mnt/mandrake/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom' ?


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Regards,
  Doncho N. Gunchev