At Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:22:06 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hello All, We have some machines running CentOS 4 Update 4 (4.4). We want to update these boxes to the stock CentOS 4 Update 8 (4.8). We have the 4.8 iso images. Is it possible to use up2date and have it use the 4.8 mounted iso images on a remote (install) server as the repository? The ISO's are accessible through http. These servers are remote with no
You could mount the ISO's via the loopback device on the http server ('localeservername'):
mkdir /var/www/centos48 mount -t iso9660 -r -o loop /path/to/dvdrom.iso /var/www/centos48
then add /var/www/centos44 to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Alias /centos48/ "/var/www/centos48/"
<Directory "/var/www/centos48/"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory>
Then restart the httpd server:
/sbin/service httpd restart
Then on the machines you want to update:
create /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-48-Http.repo:
[c48-local-httpd] name=CentOS-4.8 - Local Httpd baseurl=http://localeservername/centos48/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
Then do
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=c48-local-httpd update
(The above was cribbed from the /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo)
Basicly, the DVD *IS* a repository (corresponds to the base repo).
CD/DVD option to upgrade that way. I have tried to Google this but can't seem to quite hit what I need. I found one that shows up2date-config GUI setup but I do not have X running on this server and do not want to screw up the config with the CLI version of it. We need to go to stock versions to match our production RHEL 4.8 machines. Thanks, John