sometime ago, I tried doing installing from the install DVD using these options: 1) do a local install. # yum --disablerepo='*' localinstall /media/<mountpoint>/<packages>
2) Can't remember details but you essentially create a repos.d file, call it mylocal, in /etc/yum.repos.d, which is simply a copy of sl.repos edited to point to your local mountpoint. Remember to delete the file mylocal afterwards! Note: In (1) I had to explicitly provide the chain of dependent packages yum expected (whenever it complained). (Can't remember if (2) had any setbacks). Hope the above helps. William. >________________________________ > From: Yasha Karant <[email protected]> >To: Scientific Linux Users <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 4:12 AM >Subject: How to add from SL 6x bootable install DVD > >During the installation process of SL 6x from a bootable installation DVD, >there is an opportunity to configure in detail the selection of the actual >applications and utilities ("packages") that one wants. If for some reason an >error is made, in part due to the lack of a confirmation prompt if the install >widget is hit, and the system proceeds to install producing a bootable system >from the machine local hard drive, is there a way to get back to this section >of the install process from a running system (as root) using the same DVD? > >I do not want to use the add/remove software pull down menu item that seems to >require repositories over a network, not from the local machine DVD -- unless >the add/remove software GUI utility can be pointed to the bootable install >DVD. I also do not want to re-install from scratch. > >I typically do use the update process over the network, as well as the GUI >add/remove software from repositories -- or yum from a command line -- for >specific applications/utilities, but not for the long laundry list during an >initial installation. > >Yasha Karant > > >
