On 03/02/06, David Evennou (Data Masters, Inc.) <de at data-masters.com> wrote: > Hello Members, > > I am getting a "timeout" error when trying to update using the internet. I > think that maybe it is related to my ISP download bandwidth. > Is there a way to get the updates from a faster connection, like from my > home PC, and make a "LAN" update disk? This has been covered a bit in the past. You can create a local Yum repositry and update from that. My suggestion from the past thread ("Best way to mirror CentOS locally", 18-Oct-2005 15:08) ... <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kick off an rsync from your closest fast mirror, wait for this to complete, then setup a nightly cron job to keep in sync with this mirror. Something like... rsync -Pptrl --delete rsync://rsync.sunsite.org.uk/sites/msync.centos.org/CentOS/4/ /local_repo/CentOS/4/ Would mirror the whole CentOS 4 tree to /local_repo/CentOS/4/ on the system the sync was run on. You can then point the local yum configs to file:/local_repo/CentOS/4/ Run a webserver/ftpserver that can access /local_repo/CentOS/4/ to make the updates available to other clients. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> And Alfred von Campe added... <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To speed things up (and to conserve disk space), you can add a --exclude=isos to the rsync command (and also --exclude="alpha" --exclude="ia64" --exclude="ppc" --exclude="s390*" --exclude="x86_64" if you only need/want the i386 stuff). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Will.