Hello,

I recently installed Fedora Core1 on an old Compaq box I has sitting around.
My intention was to use it as a Samba server, for which is working quite
nicely.
However, since that time, I have decided to install Apache and mySQL.

Here's where the problem starts.

I originally installed using FTP (ftp.nrc.ca) - the system does not have a
CD-ROM,
as I gutted it shortly after installing (it was there just in case). Now I
would like to
install mysql and Apache using the Add/Remove Applications dialog -
redhat-config-packages - I am aware of, and have fix, the discrepancies that
the
'method.py' script contained, so please do not post anything regarding the
'Redhat' ref.


Anyway, I downloaded the ISO's via BT and have created a loopback mount
point to
the CD-ROM's mount (/dev/cdrom) - when I nav there everything looks fine,
however
r-c-p seems to see things differently.

Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem or to potentially redirect
r-c-p to see
the original FTP server location so I can just continue to grab them off
there.

So far, Fedora is the /only/ distro that I have run into where it auto
resets my source
location as it wishes.

Here is the command used to mount - I've used it before and it *should* be
working
but for some reason, it doesn't seem to satisfy Fedora.

mount -o loop -t iso9660 yarrow-test1-x86_64-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom

I've looked through the Python scripts in the
/usr/share/redhat-config-packages
dir - I see the correct references being made, however it still does not
seem to work.

Can someone help me out here, I'm a bit confused as to what the problem is.

Thank you,
David Jubinville

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:50:05 +0000 XxVeganEaterxX wrote:
quote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently installed Fedora Core1 on an old Compaq box I has sitting aroun
d.
> My intention was to use it as a Samba server, for which is working quite
> nicely.
> However, since that time, I have decided to install Apache and mySQL.
>
> Here's where the problem starts.


[ snipped funny nonsense ]
quote:

> Thank you,
> David Jubinville


Why don't you configure up2date and/or yum to use a mirror server

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo...y/msg03379.html

and then run "up2date httpd mysql-server" or "yum install httpd
mysql-server"? This way you can get all update packages as well.

Alexander


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Thank you for your response, but it does not fix the problem at hand. I
don't think you fully understood what I was getting at.

The point is that I need to access the ISO images from the local disk as the
system does not have a CDROM. I have already reconfigured yum to run off the
NRC FTP server, but that does not solve the problem at all. What I need is
an easy to understand (aka: visual) system that the other people using the
server can understand. This said, redhat-config-packages can, and should be
able to access sources not located on CD.

If it can not - which is most obvious at this point - then what has been
changed to make this impossible - as it is possible on every other linux
distro I have ever used - including Mandrake's source setting dialog, which
allows you to change it on the fly. I find this lack of a main feature to be
very much out of character for Redhat, especially regarding their mentality
towards Fedora.

If you can not post a fix or and feedback on fixing this specific problem -
not another workaround, then please don't bother responding to this post.

Thank you,
David Jubinville

"Alexander Dalloz" <alexander.dalloz@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.01.25.21.58.17.390878@uni-bielefeld.de...
quote:

> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:50:05 +0000 XxVeganEaterxX wrote:
> 
around.[QUOTE] 
>
> [ snipped funny nonsense ]
> 
>
> Why don't you configure up2date and/or yum to use a mirror server
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo...y/msg03379.html
>
> and then run "up2date httpd mysql-server" or "yum install httpd
> mysql-server"? This way you can get all update packages as well.
>
> Alexander
>
>
> --
> Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany
> PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999
> PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416  14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
>

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