Can yum download to a pen-drive?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 20:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 24 April 2008 20:25, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 20:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 24 April 2008 19:36, Will Woods wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 18:37 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > > > Gawd knows. I'm no yum expert (sorry if I mislead you :-).
> > > > > >
> > > > > :-)
> > > > > :
> > > > > > I'd suggest
> > > > > > backing out the edit to yum.conf and just creating a repo file
> > > > > > in /etc/yum.repos.d like I did. See what happens.
> > > > >
> > > > > Exactly the same.  'Options Error: Error parsing '10': invalid
> > > > > boolean value'.
> > > > >
> > > > > Very discouraging.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds like you mistyped a 'option=1' as 'option=10' somewhere in your
> > > > yum config. Boolean values need to be 1 or 0; if you made a typo and
> > > > put a '10' in there that's what you'd get.
> > > >
> > > > Try: grep -rs '=10' /etc/yum.*
> > > > and see if you find such a typo.
> > >
> > > Correction to last message -
> > >
> > > kde-settings-pulseaudio..... has depsolving
> > > problems...........skip-broken could not solve problems.
> > >
> > > Can I exclude within the command (first try didn't succeed) or do I have
> > > to create an exclude list?
> >
> > yum --exclude=kde-settings-pulseaudio ...
> >
> > should work I think.
> >
> I think that it's a dependency for something else.  I'm ploughing through the 
> lines of text.  What I really need, I think, is to be able to exclude the 
> audio group of packages.

Actually, given that you simply want to check if your PCMCIA thing
works, couldn't you install with no desktop? I mean delect both Gnome
and KDE in the install dialogue. That would probably eliminate the audio
crap, whereupon you would have a bootable console-based system with
(hopefully) a working network. Then you do a proper install from the
full set of repos ("yum groupinstall KDE" or whatever).

poc