Subhodip's presentation will take care of that . I was thinking that since we are installing using DVDs, so we can simply keep demonstrating them on projector how to follow the steps and create partitions instead of using the kickstart method since we are not installing on one machine at a time. Kickstart works well for standalone installations but not in situations like install fest.. We will have enough experienced people out there to help anyone facing a problem with the manual way. Though the offline repo is a job well done by Ratnadeep. -- Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury sherry151(a)gmail.com !!!Windows is "micro"-soft[ware]..I like bigger things!!!

Hi, Thanks for pointing it out. That is how we learnt it, by installing manually. I just wanted to keep other options open. Regards, Ratnadeep Debnath

Hi, First time when I created a 600 MB repo for Fedora 10 during the Install Fest at BCREC on 30 Jan 2009, funny as it might sound, I did quite absurd things and it took me a lot of time ( 2 days). I then installed F10 in VBox, and was trying to install the packages to see their dependencies, then download them manually. What a time! But, now what I did was yum resolvedep <package-name> Then either install them keeping the yum cache on or, yumdownloader <package-names> I also added the the Packages from the F10 Install DVD, so that there is no Dependency failure if one does an installation selecting the default packages only. Also this time I included the KDE 4.2 update, and it is better to do a yum groupinstall kde-desktop for that. To enable group install in your repo, copy the comps-f10.xml file from /var/cache/yum/updates/comps-f10.xml to your repo folder, then create repo in the following way------- createrepo -g comps-f10.xml /path/to/repo_folder/ Now all you need is a .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ which has the information on the baseurl for offline installation. The present size of my repo is approx. 3.6 GB. It works nicely. The repo can be on any media ( from internal disks to USB flash drives and DVDs). You can mount the repo folder to /var/ftp/pub/ in case you are using an FTP server. Thank you Regards, Ratnadeep Debnath DGPLUG ratnadeepdebnath.wordpress.com On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: