Install additional software from Install Media

[Quasar Jarosz]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 08:21 -0500, Quasar Jarosz wrote:
>  > >  I'll take the liberty of quoting myself from an earlier thread:
>  > >
>  > >  # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo
>  > >  [localrepo]
>  > >  name=Fedora Local Repo
>  > >  failovermethod=priority
>  > >  baseurl=file:///Repo
>  > >  enabled=1
>  > >  #
>  > >
>  > >  You need to create the Repo directory, containing Packages [from the
>  > >  DVD], and the repodata folder (from the DVD) in it.
>  > >
>  >
>  > This is quite a hassle. Do we consider this a feature that's not
>  > needed enough to make it easier?
>
>  I've no idea what the rationale is, or indeed if there is any. I
>  remember when I installed the first Fedora version that allowed you to
>  postpone package selection (F7?) being completely bummed out that the
>  GUI tool couldn't automatically look for stuff on the install DVD.
>  Baldly telling the user he can do something now or later, without
>  explaining that 'later' is going to mean either downloading stuff he
>  already has, or Googling to find out how to hand-edit his yum
>  configuration, is another example of where Anaconda needs some attention
>  IMHO.

I agree - that's basically what i was looking at. I chose not to
install certain features to see how well it would work to install them
later, and in fact it can't at all..