Re: Can yum download to a pen-drive?

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On Tuesday 22 April 2008 21:40:03 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 18:49 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On a laptop with the LiveCD install I have the problem that I can't
> > network, as the PCMCIA card is not recognised.  I have since found that
> > the LiveCD itself can recognise and configure the card.  That makes me
> > wonder if I could
> >
> > a) install downloadonly onto the RAM-drive
> > b) use downloadonly to yum the updates, saving them to a usb pen-drive
> >
> > Any advice on how this might be done?  Thanks
>
> Just copy /var/cache/yum to the pendrive. To use yum to install them at
> a later date, set up a local repo (Google is your friend).
>
<light switches on> Download packages on another box then move to pen-drive?  
But presumably I'd have to download all the packages so that the correct ones 
can be selected.  How many GB is that?

Anne

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