On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, david wrote: > Hey all, > I've got RH 8.0, I want to kickstart it to a number of machines. The > lab does not have any access to the out side world what so ever but most > machines are networked with Gigabit. I also have a file server NFS with > the CD iso mounted. I want to be able to have the Updates installed when I I posted to either this list or Anaconda how _I_ get my updates applied even though installing from an unaltered NFS/FTP/HTTP source tree. When I install, I always have the latest fixes applied. > install the OS. A while ago I found a site that did some work with > replacing RPMs on the CD/NFS and changing some lines in a file and they > where updated with out any more effort. Second question is can I use the > nice Network boot feature of the NIC to boot the kernel for a remote server > to help deploy my installs. I don't have floppy drives on these machines > and the ones that do, don't have CD-ROMs. At last my final question, is You can. Read up on PXE. > there a way to "mirror" the RHN Updates to a Server so that my workstations > are not using allot of (person) time and bandwidth to download updates Use rsync or similar to maintain a local archive. up2date won't use it though, without some additional unsupported (by RH) hackery. I've never been inclined to try up2date for this reason.
