On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 22:43 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 22:33:45 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 22:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > 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? > > > > It's called a DVD ... > > > And the old laptop doesn't read DVDs, only CDs :-) > > > I installed F9 Preview and immediately copied the whole DVD to a local > > repo. That's the way to avoid selection hell during the install, and in > > fact it's the only way (apparently) to stop yum from dl'ing everything > > all over again when you want to install something you hadn't thought of > > the first time. > > > > If you have a net connection, of course it all integrates nicely, but if > > not then yum will just work with what you have. > > > I'll have another look at this. Maybe I can get enough onto a usb pen-drive. The Preview DVD comes in at a tad under 4GB (x86_64 version, the 386 version would be smaller) so it would fit on a 4 gig pendrive. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
