Computer without CDROM and Fedora ISO

[Robert L Cochran]

I'm sorry I didn't notice this thread earlier.

Let me offer complete examples all in one email:

You can mount an .iso file using the method indicated below by Mr. Marcano.

Then you install RPM's from it by hand like this:

rpm -ivh --aid 
/[your-path-to-mount]/Fedora/RPMS/[the-rpm-you-want-to-install]

For example

rpm -ivh --aid /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/gee_whiz_application*

If RPM complains that the gee_whiz_application is already installed you 
can try

rpm -Uvh --aid /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/gee_whiz_application*

which upgrades an older package to a newer one

or

rpm -Fvh --aid /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/gee_whiz_application*

which is similar.


So you have to point rpm to the new package you want to install just 
like you point an arrow at its target.

Bob

Robert Marcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:18, Miroslav Halas wrote:
> 
>>Guys,
>>
>>I have a computer without CDROM and with only USB floppy.
>>I have copied Fedora C1 ISOs on this computer and installed it from
>>ISOs
>>When setup rebooted my machine on the Additional Discs screen
>>indoesn't allow me to specify ISOs. Oh well, I can live without
>>additional discs.
>>
>>Now I am trying to install from RPMs some applications I use (sapdb)
>>and Fedora asks me to insert 3rd CDRom disc. I don't have even CDROM
>>drive so I cannot do it and therefore I cannot install my apps.
>>Anybody has an idea how to get around this and redirect Fedora to the
>>ISOs?
>>
> 
> 
> Mount the iso in a loop device
> 
> mount -o loop file.iso /pathtomount
> 
> then install the RPMs by hand
> 
> --
> Robert Marcano
> 
> 
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Miro
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Bob Cochran
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