Adding cdrom to yum as repo

Question: How to add  cdrom to yum as repo?

Answer:  If you want to add your cd or dvd to yum as repository, you to follow these instructions.

First make a backup of /etc/yum.repos.d, remove those old repo files and add a new file called local.repo with the following lines:

[local]
name=Local CD Repo
baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom

Here

is the location of CD mount. Change it as per your system’s configuration.

Once this is done, you can go ahead with

to install packages from CDROM.

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