Good morning.
I am using Mandriva 2008 Free edition. I have made an image of Mandriva DVD on drive.And i want mandriva to look for the software from that image.
Currently it is showing only installed Software on the system.
In the process of adding a media source, I have deleted those 2 sources that are made default i.e DVD drive.
Please help me how to get rid of this problem

Hi, do you mean the installer has copied the packages to your harddrive?

If so, you can find them in /var/ftp/pub/

you can use the command line and urpmi.addmedia

note:
Local_2008.1_x is a user defined name,
make sure the file:// is the right path on your system,
with hdlist.cz may sometimes be found as with media_info/hdlist.cz
and synthesis.hdlist.cz will be less infomation and quicker to update the repo database.

urpmi.addmedia Local_2008.1_main32 file://var/ftp/pub/Mandrivalinux/media/main32 with hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia Local_2008.1_main file://var/ftp/pub/Mandrivalinux/media/main with hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia Local_2008.1_contrib file://var/ftp/pub/Mandrivalinux/media/contrib with hdlist.cz


hope that helps, Glenn

I have made ISO image of Mandriva DVD in a ntfs drive and i want Mandriva to look for packages from this image. I want to make this image as a media source.
How i can do this?

you may use loop to

mount -t iso9660 -o loop filename.ima /some/mount/point

Where filename.ima is the full address of the iso

and

/some/mount/point

where you want to mount the files system, folder must exist (create it) like..

/media/mandy-iso

you may have trouble reading from ntfs...

once mounted, urpmi.addmedia.... as above.

I have not tested this...

regards, Glenn

PS, I'd move it to a non-ntfs partition first.