Mount ISO as Yum Source in Linux

1 year ago
Noah Thompson
1 minute

To mount an ISO and set it as a yum source on a Linux system, you can follow the steps below:

  1. Create a mount point directory, for example /mnt/iso.
sudo mkdir /mnt/iso
  1. Mount the ISO file onto the created mount point directory using the mount command.
sudo mount -o loop /path/to/your/iso/file.iso /mnt/iso
  1. Edit the .repo file in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory to create a new yum repository configuration file, such as myiso.repo, with the following content:
[myiso]
name=myiso
baseurl=file:///mnt/iso
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
  1. Save and exit the editor, then run the following command to clean the yum cache and regenerate it:
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum makecache
  1. You can now use the yum command to install packages or update the system, which will retrieve packages from the ISO file you have mounted.

Please note that once you have finished using the ISO file, remember to unmount it using the umount command.

sudo umount /mnt/iso

This will enable you to successfully mount the ISO on a Linux system and set it as a yum source.

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