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"Robert P. J. Day" <[log in to unmask]>
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Robert P. J. Day
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:56:04 -0500
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Connie Sieh wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >  perhaps i missed this when i was installing but is there a quick way
> > to install a media repo file -- that is, one that tries to install off
> > of the inserted DVD?
> >
> >  when i was using centos 5.5, there was a CentOS-Media.repo file that
> > contained:
> >
> > [c5-media]
> > name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
> > baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/
> >        file:///media/cdrom/
> >        file:///media/cdrecorder/
> > gpgcheck=1
> > enabled=0
> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
> >
> >  so one could enable that repo file and pull packages directly off of
> > the DVD for speed.  is there a shortcut to install that on SL 6, or
> > should i just create the SL equivalent manually?  thanks.
> >
> > rday
> >
> >
>
> Robert,
>
>   We have not provided a "media repo" file in the past.  So you will have to
> create it manually.

  ok, that shouldn't be hard, thanks.

rday

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