Tammy Fox wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:01:01PM -0600, Danial Howard wrote: > >>I cannot get the --tree option to work at all. The >>redhat-config-packages tells me that the directory I specified does >>not appear to be a valid installation source. >> >>I've tried every directory level with and without a slash at the end. >> >>e.g.: >>redhat-config-packages --tree=/mnt/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ >> > > > You need to point it to the directory that contains the RedHat > directory. I just tried it from a directory mounted over NFS, and it > takes a little longer to read the RPM Headers, but it works. > > Tammy I use my local mirror all the time for NFS and HTTP network installs. I'm certain that it's a valid installation source. Here's what I use for NFS installs: server name: rhinstall directory: /exports/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386 On the NFS server, I export /exports/redhat/8.0. On the NFS client, I mount like this using fstab: [line will probably wrap] rhinstall:/exports/redhat/8.0 /mnt/8.0 nfs noauto,ro,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 So, locally, I should use /mnt/8.0/en/os/i386, which contains the RedHat directory. I can cd there and see the files. They look normal. So I try this: redhat-config-packages --tree=/mnt/8.0/en/os/i386 redhat-config-packages --tree=/mnt/8.0/en/os/i386/ Executing the above, I still get the error message "Installation Tree Not Found. The path /mnt/8.0/en/os/i386 does not look like a valid installation source." Similar error message for the second with the / at the end. Does anyone have any other ideas? -- Danial M. Howard--howadani at isu.edu--(208) 282-3097 IT Systems Programmer, Computing and Communications Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
