Actually, that's what I'm doing for RPMs I've built myself. BTW-We have an article in Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7630) that talks about what we've been doing. Many thanks to all of you who helped solve some of my problems! Ryan -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jurvis LaSalle Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:28 PM To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Updates for a Network Install On Jun 15, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Ryan Golhar wrote: > 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 > > I'm not sure if I've violated some RH EULA but this is what I did: 1) configure master box with a fresh install using latest RHEL U2 isos 2) configure up2date on master to save rpms when updating, they will be saved in /var/spool/up2date/*.rpm 3) scp those rpms into a directory on the install server- make sure this directory is exported by nfs 4) Profit!! Er... in the %post section of the kickstart generated on your master box add the following lines: mkdir /mnt/rpms mount <ip address of nfs server>:/exported/rpms /mnt/rpms rpm -ivh /mnt/rpms/*.rpm >> /root/jurvupdate.log 2>&1 umount /mnt/rpms There's a lot more you can do with the %post section of your kickstart file, have fun! hth, Jurvis LaSalle -- 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
