Can yum download to a pen-drive?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 22:33:45 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 22:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 21:40:03 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 18:49 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On a laptop with the LiveCD install I have the problem that I can't
> > > > network, as the PCMCIA card is not recognised.  I have since found
> > > > that the LiveCD itself can recognise and configure the card.  That
> > > > makes me wonder if I could
> > > >
> > > > a) install downloadonly onto the RAM-drive
> > > > b) use downloadonly to yum the updates, saving them to a usb
> > > > pen-drive
> > > >
> > > > Any advice on how this might be done?  Thanks
> > >
> > > Just copy /var/cache/yum to the pendrive. To use yum to install them at
> > > a later date, set up a local repo (Google is your friend).
> >
> > <light switches on> Download packages on another box then move to
> > pen-drive? But presumably I'd have to download all the packages so that
> > the correct ones can be selected.  How many GB is that?
>
> It's called a DVD ...
>
And the old laptop doesn't read DVDs, only CDs :-)

> I installed F9 Preview and immediately copied the whole DVD to a local
> repo. That's the way to avoid selection hell during the install, and in
> fact it's the only way (apparently) to stop yum from dl'ing everything
> all over again when you want to install something you hadn't thought of
> the first time.
>
> If you have a net connection, of course it all integrates nicely, but if
> not then yum will just work with what you have.
>
I'll have another look at this.  Maybe I can get enough onto a usb pen-drive.

Anne
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