On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 14:33 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am shortly going to be in the situation of installing Fedora Core 3 onto a > new desktop for my sister, which is then going to be located 150 miles > away, used intermittently and only to have short bursts of dialup internet > connectivity for emails only. The only means of updating it will be through > updates burnt onto a CD or DVD and posted to her. > > Therefore, some questions;- > A - What folders do I need to copy to the CD for yum to use when updating > please? The easiest thing for you to do would be to mirror one of the updates mirrors (including all the info yum needs, read the man page...) then edit your /etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/* Use the file://path_to_cd_repository in one of those... so you'll need to read: man yum man yum.conf > B - What commands will have to be used at the command line to tell yum to > update from the CD please? then just run yum -y update Have fun. regards, Joe --
