I am giving IOmeter a try on Linux. More specifically I am creating a minimal RedHat install that I want to install the IOmeter client on, then clone the install a few dozen times. When I tried to download the IOmeter linux client I realized that the minimal RedHat install does not include wget. Since I did not have a reliable internet connection on my MacBook I wasn’t able to connect to the RedHat repos. I was able to search and find the following process on how to configure a local repo to be able to install packages from the cdrom.

1. Create a file: /etc/yum.repos.d/cdrom.repo
   [cdrom]
   name=cdrom
   baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom
   gpgcheck=0

    

2. Mount CDrom:
   mkdir /mnt/cdrom
   mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

    

3. Run: yum clean all

    

4. Install needed packages:
   yum install wget