I was trying the exact same thing. If you have one machine configured properly, there are two ways I know of to do this: 1. On the RedHat Network Website, you can download a bunch of updates as a tarball for the machine. 2. Use up2date and tell it to look in the directory you copied the CDs into and update the RPMs. I believe the switches are -d -k <install directory> I actually found that I don't rebuild the machines all that often. In fact, I haven't rebuilt the machines yet so that download only occurs once...new CDs come out every so often with the new packages, so I stopped worrying about it... Ryan -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Oliver Aaltonen Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:18 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Updates for a Network Install Hello all, I'm looking to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 WS on a bunch of workstations, and would like to do it over the network. What I've done so far is copied the contents of all four installation CDs to a directory on a server (also running EL3) and made it available via HTTP. I ran a test install using a kickstart file that pointed the installer to the server over HTTP and everything ran perfectly, no problems at all. My dilemma is this: many of the packages on the CDs are not up to date, and Red Hat has released updates that are available through Red Hat Network. I can always install the updates after getting the machine up and running using up2date, but that's not a nice as simply updating the packages being served to the machines and being installed initially. Is there a simple way to get the updates from Red Hat and have them overwrite the files in the distribution directory? Perhaps a way to run up2date on the RPMs in the directory? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Oliver -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
