Creating a Local Yum Repository Using an ISO Image on RHEL / OEL 5

- Create a directory to mount iso file in it

  
mkdir /media/iso

- Check default CD Drive mount points in your virtual machine most to be "/dev/sr0" or "/dev/hdc"

  
mount 
umount /dev/hdc # as your virtual CD drive to be /dev/hdc or /dev/sr0
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /dev/hdc /media/iso

- Edit "etc/fstab" to mount in boot startup

  
vim /etc/fstab # to mount in boot startup

    /dev/hdc      /media/iso      iso9660 loop,defaults   0 0

- Create local yum dvd.repo file

  
vim /etc/yum.repo.d/dvd.repo

[Server]
name=Server
baseurl=file:///media/iso/Server
gpgkey=file:///media/iso/RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

[Cluster]
name=Cluster
baseurl=file:///media/iso/Cluster
gpgkey=file:///media/iso/RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

[ClusterStorage]
name=ClusterStorage
baseurl=file:///media/iso/ClusterStorage
gpgkey=file:///media/iso/RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=1

- Clean up yum repo cache and create new one

  
yum clean all
yum makecache
yum repolist