redhat-config-packages

[mroth at cfl.rr.com]

From: Rajesh kanna <tr_rajeshkanna at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 8:03 am
> From: mark <mroth at cfl.rr.com>
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Rajesh kanna wrote:
> > Server doesn't have a CD-DRIVE need to connect an external one to
> > install pkg with dependencies.
> > 
> > Also to overcome manual intervention to swap CD's.
> 
> Haven't used r-c-p, but why not run it, and then mount the .iso's 
> on the loop?
> 
> Mounting the iso on loop gives the  error
> 
Let me step back a minute, and make sure we're talking about the same thing:
mount /wherever/whatname.iso /mnt/iso -o loop

At that point, if you do an ls, or cd, or whatever, to /mnt/iso/, do you
see the files, and/or can you read any of them?

    mark