Yum local Repository , using Redhat DVD

Steps by step as followed:

Make a directory rhel5 inside the /var/ftp/pub

# cd /var/ftp/pub

# mkdir rhel5

Mount the RHEL DVD and Moved all files to this Directory /var/ftp/pub/rhel5

# mkdir /mnt/cdrom

# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

# cp -rvfp /mnt/cdrom/Server/ rhel5

4. Installed createrepo RPM

# rpm -ivh createrepo

5. Executed this command

# cd /rhel5/Server/

# createrepo -v .

6. Create a myown.repo file at the /etc/yum.repos.d/

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/myown.repo

[localinfo]

name=MyOwnRepo

baseurl=file:///pub/rhel5/Server/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

:wq

Clean the cache and list all the rpms from the yum server

# yum clean all

# yum list