On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 16:26 +0000, rance at frontiernet.net wrote: > I'm looking for how-tos/hints to make the following possible: > > I downloaded all four centos 4.3 iso to a ext3 partition on my hd, > burned the first disk only, and the a hd based install. > > Problem: Centos didnt seem to take into account that I was doing a HD > based install and and ask me if I wanted to use the hd images as a > source for additional appliction installs later. Now it asks me for > the cds and I dont want that. I want it to look at the hd for the > additional rpms. > > Question: How can I make this happen? > Catch: The catch is that this "server" will eventually be setup to > "feed" the cds out to clients when they install and when they "add apps > later". So I'd like to use an implementation method that lends itself > to both applications. > > I'm open to nfs, ftp, or http content delivery to clients in case one > or the other makes a difference. If the directory where you downloaded the isos is NFS-exported you can do an nfs install without any extra work. I usually do subsequent updates and package installs with yum over the internet, but run everything through through a caching web proxy configured to cache large files so only one download really happens without any distribution-specific setup. Of course distributions like fedora that have yum get different urls from the mirrorlist every run pretty much screw this up... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com