Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Create a Local Repository on RHEL 6.3 for Yum Installer

Step1: Mount the OS disk and copy the contents to a local path which will be the main repository path:


mkdir -p /linuxdvd/
 
cp -RH /mnt/dvd/* /linuxdvd/
 

Step2: Create new yum repository (e.g. rhel-local.repo)

Create the repo file

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-local.repo
 

Insert the below content to the file.Change the details according to your environment.

[rhel6.3-local]
name=RHEL 6.3 local repository
baseurl=file:///linuxdvd/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
enabled=1