As I explained, I cannot transmit or receive URLs within SMTP email and 

perhaps other modalities due to the security measures of the campus with 

which I am associated, as you can see below in URL modification.  Until 

I can get my SL users email address permanently reset, please email any 

URL information to [log in to unmask] .  I apologize for this, but I have 

no control or input to any system under the current campus 

administration, as faculty (including tenured full professors) who are 

not campus administrators (deans or higher administrators in most cases) 

are informed of actions, but otherwise have little meaningful influence 

over decisions.



I will attempt to implement what is suggested below without access to 

the Kadel-Garcia tool set, but I suspect that the tool set will save me 

some time and effort.



Thanks for your patience.



Yasha Karant



On 10/17/2018 08:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:07 PM Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> How does one update SL 7 using a mounted USB flash drive as the source

>> of a repo, rather than using any external network?  There were

>> instructions for doing this for EL pre-7 distributions, but I cannot

>> find similar instructions for SL 7.  I have a USB flash drive with the

>> current double-layer DVD SL7.5 install image (ISO) and that does work --

>> I just did a fresh install of SL7.5 using this media.

> One sets up a new or one of the existing /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files

> to look at the locally mounted CD drive. I would copy "sl7.repo" to

> "sl7-local.repo", and reset the repository names to "sl7-local" and

> the like, and set their URLs to point to

> "file:///mountpoint/7.version/x86_64/os" and similar URLs.

>

> I've done just this sort of thing, successfully for internal SL,

> CentOS, and RHEL mirrors. You may find my tools at

> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_nkadel_nkadel-2Drsync-2Dscripts&d=DwIBaQ&c=B_W-eXUX249zycySS1AyzjABMeYirU1wvo9-GmMObjY&r=Z7xHp2tIJsvAE2FtPxl_lynvf4hA_FJ8mKsaIgvY6Dk&m=RT1c81ULE-0AAXhmXl3Y0eaJZ0yPhGaZLHC9N3oM0hs&s=r3JZw6l5f9xZhSR9sTX2gWvskXqOW9_hfegrgK-QAvU&e= helpful for generateing

> your local mirror, especially the one for Scientific Linux.