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Excuse the crosspost, but I got NO takers on my previous post about
mounting an external filesystem as a local CDROM. So, as another possible
solution, how can I get the redhat "install applications" (run from the X
gui) to look somewhere other than the onboard CDROM for the RPMs (if the
original install was from CDs)? I can mount my local CDROM to a directory
on a remote redhat box and install the packages (often one at a time as
the dependencies require), but the package manager gui interface is quick
and easy, especially for the packages included in the distribution, if I
could get it to look for them in director(ies) instead of the local CD
drive.
Any help appreciated,
Thanks,
....kurt
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| brasshopper 2004-06-03, 2:50 am |
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Originally posted by Kurt
Excuse the crosspost, but I got NO takers on my previous post about
mounting an external filesystem as a local CDROM. So, as another possible
solution, how can I get the redhat "install applications" (run from the X
gui) to look somewhere other than the onboard CDROM for the RPMs (if the
original install was from CDs)? I can mount my local CDROM to a directory
on a remote redhat box and install the packages (often one at a time as
the dependencies require), but the package manager gui interface is quick
and easy, especially for the packages included in the distribution, if I
could get it to look for them in director(ies) instead of the local CD
drive.
Any help appreciated,
Thanks,
.....kurt
"install applications" is essentially a broken thing. I believe that this installs a Python thing called "redhat-config-packages". The issue is that once you install maintenance, you may no longer be able to install packages off of the CD.
It is a Python package, I presume you could read it - or strace it to see what config files it might open. |
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