Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > My basic situation is: hundred of machines will be > installed with Centos 5.0 by means of kickstart. and > then the machines will always uses Centos 5.0 > kickstart images for initial installation, not Centos > 5.1, Centos 5.2, etc. This should work. As I understand it, as long as you have the latest packages, you have "5.1" or "5.2", regardless of what kickstart image you started with. So, what I do is rsync (from one of the mirrors to my local repo) these directories: centos/5/os/i386/ centos/5/updates/i386/ centos/5/os/x86_64/ centos/5/updates/x86_64/ Then, when I do a kickstart, it points to my local repo above. So, the instant I'm done installing a machine, it will always be at the latest release for all packages and the OS. (And then, of course, use a cron job to continually keep the machine updated.) johnn