On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:20 -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > Nima Talebi wrote: > > In all these responses, there has been no mention of the RHupdates folder - > > what I am trying to avoid is to modify the isos that are being mounted, I > > simply want to override them with my files, such that if I want to, I can > > just remove my files and things are back to normal. > > > > Is there a way to have this all work without having to create ext2 or other > > images? > > Not for HTTP or FTP installs. The RHupdates directory method only works > for NFS installs. You must create an updates.img file if you want get > RHupdates functionality with HTTP or FTP installs. Just to explain this is as we can not guarantee being able to get directory listings on ftp/http and thus could not copy all the files/directories to /tmp/updates. So we have to try known paths for an image for those methods. Paul
