Updating Fedora 3 non-internet

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Feb 13 23:26:17 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 15:30 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Peter Arremann wrote:
> 
> >On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:57, Mark Sargent wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>how do I do this.? I can access the net via my Fedora2 box, but, don't
> >>want the Fedora3 box doing such, but wish to update. So, do I download
> >>all updates(can I distinguish b4hand from old and latest updates) to a
> >>Folder, burn to a CD and point YUM, on the new box, to the CD.?
> >>Thoughts/ideas, thanx. Cheers.
> >>    
> >>
> >Why not just run a rpm -Fvh on the rpm directory you have on cd?
> >
> >Peter.
> >
> >  
> >
> Hi All,
> 
> ok, but, how do I seperate the latest updates from the older ones, when 
> 1st downloading from the net.? Cheers.
> 
> Mark Sargent.
> 
Since you are wanting to do the update manually, just download all the
updates, remove the older versions, then burn the remaining to CD.

Now an rpm -Fvh will work with just the latest, since that is all it has
to look at.




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