I have some issues to connect to internet in my CentOS 6.4 minimal server and i need to install some packages right now. So what should i do now without internet?
Its very simple! I just added my CentOS 6.4 DVD location to my repository files found in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and installed the software’s which i need.
This is how i added the CentOS DVD iso to my yum repository.
First of all, you need to create a mount point and mount the Installation Media.
# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
Mount the cdrom drive to /mnt/cdrom:
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/ mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
Check if it is correctly mounted:
# ls -altr /mnt/cdrom/
Sample output:
total 547 -r--r--r--. 2 root root 1734 Mar 1 16:15 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-6 -r--r--r--. 2 root root 1730 Mar 1 16:15 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Security-6 -r--r--r--. 2 root root 1730 Mar 1 16:15 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Debug-6 -r--r--r--. 2 root root 1706 Mar 1 16:15 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 -r--r--r--. 2 root root 18009 Mar 1 16:15 GPL -r--r--r--. 2 root root 212 Mar 1 16:15 EULA -r--r--r--. 2 root root 1354 Mar 1 16:15 RELEASE-NOTES-en-US.html -r--r--r--. 2 root root 14 Mar 4 20:00 CentOS_BuildTag dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 2048 Mar 4 20:12 isolinux dr-xr-xr-x. 3 root root 2048 Mar 4 20:13 images dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 509952 Mar 5 19:36 Packages -r--r--r--. 1 root root 29 Mar 5 19:36 .discinfo -r--r--r--. 1 root root 334 Mar 5 19:37 .treeinfo -r--r--r--. 1 root root 3165 Mar 5 19:37 TRANS.TBL dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 19:37 repodata dr-xr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 Mar 5 19:37 . drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Aug 19 06:44 ..
Let us add ISO location to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo.
# nano /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
Make the changes as shown below. See the red coloured lines.
# CentOS-Media.repo # # This repo can be used with mounted DVD media, verify the mount point for # CentOS-6. You can use this repo and yum to install items directly off the # DVD ISO that we release. # # To use this repo, put in your DVD and use it with the other repos too: # yum --enablerepo=c6-media [command] # # or for ONLY the media repo, do this: # # yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c6-media [command] [c6-media] name=CentOS-$releasever - Media baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/ ## Add the following lines ## file:///mnt/cdrom/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
Now try to install some packages like ‘Gnome Desktop’.
# yum groupinstall "Desktop"
Cool it works now! Hope this method works for you too.
