John Summerfield wrote:
> Connie Sieh wrote:
>

>>> What might be wrong, and how do I fix it?
>>>
>>
>> media is a newer feature of createrepo which is used to determine what 
>> media a rpm is on.  I guess it is not really needed for a dvd image as 
>> there is only 1 media.  But it is needed for the cd images.  In this 
>> first SL5 release I took the cd images and made a dvd out of it.  I 
>> will research if I can do this differently in the future.
> 
> Ah, does this mean I can't just mount the DVD on a loopback drive and 
> serve it up? That's what I am trying to do. I'd rather not spend another 
> few Gbytes of disk on this:-(
> 
> The Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7 have the same kind of URLs. Both lack the 
> README or anything similar, afaics.
> 
> I have CentOS5 CD images, not DVD, and they also have the media thing, 
> and no README.
> 
> I think I'll ask a related question on RH's Anaconda list.

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_10415.shtm

basically it's bollixed. It will work really well with automount. I only 
have 23 ISO images I automount.


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John

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