Updates for a Network Install

[Ryan Golhar]

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 at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Oliver Aaltonen
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:18 PM
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
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


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