On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, John Newbigin wrote: > So I need to install from the 3.3 media > And then update to the versions on the 3.4 media > And then install the 3.4 updates? No - just install 3.3 media and then update to 3.4. > If I had 3.4 media I could just install off that. I am looking at a > local mirror setup which does not require me to download new CDs every 3 > months. as long as your 3.3 is a symlink to 3.4 the update will happen directly to 3.4 - it will pull stuff from /os as well as /updates but everything is there :) > I still can't figure it out :( Every time I look things have changed. > > > I also have another question which I will ask here.... it is about the > x86_64 updates > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ > > There are i386 updates in there. Are these required? That is better answered by one of the x86_64 maintainers. > They are the same > as the i386 versions. If so, I end up downloading them multiple times > which is a pain :( > They should be hardlinks to the i386 rpms - which rsync will respect as long as you use -H and only download once. Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.