diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
index b325b3728..0e5f38ddd 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ sub subvars {
   my $media_dir = shift;
   my $platform=shift;
   my $partitionfile=shift;
+  my $os=shift;
   my %namedargs = @_; #further expansion of this function will be named arguments, should have happened sooner.
   unless ($namedargs{reusemachinepass}) {
 	$lastmachinepassdata->{password}="";
@@ -111,8 +112,15 @@ sub subvars {
   if ( defined($media_dir) ) {
       @pkgdirs = split(",", $media_dir);
       my $source;
-      my $c = 0;
+      my $c = 0; 
       foreach my $pkgdir(@pkgdirs) {
+          # For rhels5.9, the os base repo should be url
+          # and the repo repository will be the additional.
+          if ( $c == 0 &&  $os =~ /^rhels5/) {
+              $source .=  "url --url http://#TABLE:noderes:\$NODE:nfsserver#/$pkgdir\n";
+              $c++;
+              next; 
+          }
           if( $platform =~ /^(rh|SL)$/ ) { 
               $source .=  "repo --name=pkg$c --baseurl=http://#TABLE:noderes:\$NODE:nfsserver#/$pkgdir\n";
           } elsif ($platform =~ /^(sles|suse)/) {