Can yum download to a pen-drive?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 18:49 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On a laptop with the LiveCD install I have the problem that I can't network, 
> as the PCMCIA card is not recognised.  I have since found that the LiveCD 
> itself can recognise and configure the card.  That makes me wonder if I could
> 
> a) install downloadonly onto the RAM-drive
> b) use downloadonly to yum the updates, saving them to a usb pen-drive
> 
> Any advice on how this might be done?  Thanks

Just copy /var/cache/yum to the pendrive. To use yum to install them at
a later date, set up a local repo (Google is your friend).

poc