[FredLUG] Getting Pirut to prompt for next cd

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 07:29 -0700, doublejoon wrote:
> I have a CentOS 5 installation. It is setup off-line with no
> networking.
> I have configured YUM to use a local cd for a repository in order to
> install packages from the cd's
> 
> Does pirut have the capability to prompt for next CD# when trying to
> satisfy dependencies for a package.
> 
> I do not want to copy all of the packages from all 5 CD's to the hard
> drive.
> 
> I'm hoping that this is possible.
> 
> The old redhat-config-packages/system-config-packages worked fine for
> this in RHEL 4/CentOS 4 and below
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

The older versions did not use yum for doing depsolving, so they could
ask for multiple CDs.  AFAIK yum requires a monolithic set of metadata
for a repository, which is why most people use DVDs for installing
nowadays.  The only advice I can give you is -- if you can't copy the
packages to the server because of lack of space -- either make a DVD and
use that, or if you have no DVD drive, copy the packages to a large USB
flash or hard disk, and use that.  Unfortunately you're in sort of a
corner case -- a server with apparently limited space, with no DVD drive
and no Internet connection.  I'll check around to see if I can find any
better answers, since there may very well be one.

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