Jerry Geis wrote: > I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing now > actually). > > However, I want to save network time at installations. > If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS > and place them in a directory local on my network, > can I just "rpm -U /mnt/directory/updates/x86_64/RPMS*" > in my post section? > > Assuming I have nfs mounted the directory of course... I do this, but not over NFS, over HTTP. I create a repository that has all of the packages I want to update from and have something like this in my %post (This is for CentOS 5.2, I may go to 5.3 later in the year) cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Update the Linux Kernel ## ############################################################################### EOF rpm -Uvh http://10.1.10.31/updates/centos_5/static/i386/kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm http://10.1.10.31/updates/cento s_5/static/i386/kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm http://10.1.10.31/updates/centos_5/static/i386/kernel-headers-2.6 .18-92.1.22.el5.i386.rpm cat <<EOF; ############################################################################### ## Update System RPMS ## ############################################################################### EOF wget -P /tmp -np -q -r http://10.1.10.31/updates/centos_5/kickstart-postinstall/i386/ rpm -Uvh /tmp/10.1.10.31/updates/centos_5/kickstart-postinstall/i386/*rpm rm -rfv /tmp/10.1.10.31 -- I've been using this method for a couple years now and works good for me. nate