I think we are missing the point. With hard disk space ubiquitous and cheap, why not load them to the hard drive.
To make life easy would this work? mkdir /iso dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 ... dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd2 ... dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd3 mkdir /mnt/cd1 mkdir /mnt/cd2 mkdir /mnt/cd3 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd1 /mnt/cd1 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd2 /mnt/cd2 mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd3 /mnt/cd3 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd1 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd2 urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd3 Jim Tarvid On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > > I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down > > multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard > > drive. Is there a traditional place to which I should copy all the RPMS > > (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I just make a new partition called /cds and > > copy them to /cds/cd1, /cds/cd2/ and /cds/cd3? > > > > -- > > Matt > > um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditribution you've chosen to > install on your system. Urpmi takes the misery out of having to hunt down > the package you want to install that you're not sure which CD it's on. > > EX: urpmi some-package-name <ENTER> > > If the package is on the CD's and you're logged in as root it will tell > you which CD to place in the Drive so you can install the package. If it's > not on the CD's then it won't know what you're talking about and it will > tell you so. > > Another very painless way you can do this very same thing is to use the > systems software manager. It's called rpmdrake. This is the same little > gem of a program that allows you to do the updates for your system. Get to > know it. It's not the monster some would have you believe it is. You can > also use the search function contained on it to search your system to see > if the package you're looking for is already on your system. > > Try one or both of these methods the next time you wish to install a > package that you think may be on the CD's, but you're not certain. I have > a feeling you'll be very pleasantly surprised.
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