Here's what I would do... As someone else make a mirror of RH's
updates.. Then use apt4rpm to connect to your local mirror.. Updating
to the latest RPMs simply requires doing:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
which you could run from %post in kickstart. You do have to specially
configure your repository, but they explain how to do that here:
http://freshrpms.net/apt/
There is also GRAB that can work with any generic mounted directory,
HTTP, FTP, etc server that just contains a bunch of RPMs... You can
find that here:
http://www.runlevelzero.net/greg/grab/
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 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 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 (This is on different Network) and point
the up2date to it.
Thanks guys,
David
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David McFerrin
Activegeeks.com
Huntsville, AL
256 479-4944
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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