Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-15 Thread stan
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:04:05 -0700 stan wrote: > > I got a lot farther with your instructions than I did before. I think > I am at the ISO creation stage, and it is choking because I didn't do > something that it wants. I'm not sure what the purpose of treeinfo > is. I'll keep plugging away.

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-12 Thread stan
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Mike Cloaked wrote: > > I just tried a test install with the iso that the procedure generated > - it installed just fine - BUT it does not seem to have pulled in the > latest updates and seems pretty much the same as the original - so I > must have missed

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-12 Thread Mike Cloaked
Mike Cloaked wrote: > > By the way there was one other thing I did to make sure that selinux > should work when I made the bind mount to the changed chroot area: > > > Mike Cloaked wrote: >> >> >> 1) I wanted to have the files in the /opt partition so as not to use up >> the limited space i

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
create a local mirror and you will be happy. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, gary artim wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: >> >> By the way there was one other thing I did to make sure that selinux should >> work when I made the bind mount to the changed chroot area: >

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread stan
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > > stan-56 wrote: > > > > > >> I have a "recipe" for running mock/pungi if there is interest ... > > > > Sure, I would like to see the recipe. I tried making such a thing > > and failed miserably. It was like I was reading a

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread gary artim
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > By the way there was one other thing I did to make sure that selinux should > work when I made the bind mount to the changed chroot area: > > > Mike Cloaked wrote: >> >> >> 1) I wanted to have the files in the /opt partition so as not to use

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
By the way there was one other thing I did to make sure that selinux should work when I made the bind mount to the changed chroot area: Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > 1) I wanted to have the files in the /opt partition so as not to use up > the limited space in the root partition so I did this, but

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
stan-56 wrote: > > >> I have a "recipe" for running mock/pungi if there is interest ... > > Sure, I would like to see the recipe. I tried making such a thing and > failed miserably. It was like I was reading an instruction book where > pages were missing. :-) > > Yes I found it very hard

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread stan
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 06:19:53 -0700 (PDT) Mike Cloaked wrote: > Or - you can make your own Fedora re-mix iso using mock/pungi, and > thereby get a new DVD which will install with the latest RPMs current > at the time the re-mix was made. Another advantage is that you can > make the personalised DV

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
Tait Clarridge-2 wrote: > > >> > %post >> > >> > /usr/bin/yum -y update >> /root/post_install_update.log 2>&1 >> > >> > This will update the system without you having to do anything and >> > log what it has done for your viewing pleasure. >> >> The disadvantage to this is that it will downloa

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 08:25 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Tait Clarridge wrote: > > All you need to do is look at the %post section of the kickstart > > file > > > > For example: > > > > %post > > > > /usr/bin/yum -y update >> /root/post_install_update.log 2>&1 > > > > This will update the system

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-09 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tait Clarridge wrote: > All you need to do is look at the %post section of the kickstart > file > > For example: > > %post > > /usr/bin/yum -y update >> /root/post_install_update.log 2>&1 > > This will update the system without you having to do anything and > log what it has done for your viewing p

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 14:54 -0700, gary artim wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > [Please don't top post. Thanks.] > > > > gary artim wrote: > >> thanks will read more on this. So would this be a additiion step or > >> replacement step (just being lazy now) to using

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 14:24 -0700, gary artim wrote: > sure if anaconda and pxe would work ok. Have you used this method -- > small bit about this is that I'd like to plug any machine into the > switch and have it up in about 10min. > I have it work on some old/slow machines. Now I'd like to have i

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread gary artim
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > gary artim wrote: >> Thanks for the replybelow is my .ks , i'm installing using vsftp >> on a private net. > [...] >> #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T >> #version=F11 >> # Firewall configuration >> firewall --disabled >> # Install OS

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread Todd Zullinger
gary artim wrote: > Thanks for the replybelow is my .ks , i'm installing using vsftp > on a private net. [...] > #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T > #version=F11 > # Firewall configuration > firewall --disabled > # Install OS instead of upgrade > install > # Root password > rootpw --iscrypte

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread gary artim
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > [Please don't top post.  Thanks.] > > gary artim wrote: >> thanks will read more on this. So would this be a additiion step or >> replacement step (just being lazy now) to using the DVD iso image. > > I don't know exactly how you are using th

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread Todd Zullinger
[Please don't top post. Thanks.] gary artim wrote: > thanks will read more on this. So would this be a additiion step or > replacement step (just being lazy now) to using the DVD iso image. I don't know exactly how you are using the DVD iso image in your kickstart, so I can't say. I have kickst

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread gary artim
thanks will read more on this. So would this be a additiion step or replacement step (just being lazy now) to using the DVD iso image. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > gary artim wrote: >> I have a pxe/kickstart config that uses the install DVD image as the >> image to inst

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread gary artim
sure if anaconda and pxe would work ok. Have you used this method -- small bit about this is that I'd like to plug any machine into the switch and have it up in about 10min. I have it work on some old/slow machines. Now I'd like to have it install the OS/apply patches to get it current/and apply ot

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
what you think about creating a private mirror in your network ? On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:09 PM, gary artim wrote: > Hi -- > > I have a pxe/kickstart config that uses the install DVD image as the > image to install over the net machines on a specific subnet. My > question is if there is an autom

Re: kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread Todd Zullinger
gary artim wrote: > I have a pxe/kickstart config that uses the install DVD image as the > image to install over the net machines on a specific subnet. My > question is if there is an automated way I could update the Package > directory to the most current (ie patched) rpm's? I'd like to do > this

kickstart -- refreshing rpm's.

2009-10-08 Thread gary artim
Hi -- I have a pxe/kickstart config that uses the install DVD image as the image to install over the net machines on a specific subnet. My question is if there is an automated way I could update the Package directory to the most current (ie patched) rpm's? I'd like to do this in a way that will co