Updates for a Network Install

[Ryan Golhar]

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 at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jurvis LaSalle
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:28 PM
To: golharam at umdnj.edu; 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




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