Well, I wish I could use DVD but my VMware server does not support it. It has an option only for CD ROM. :( I may not go for the second option (up-to-date with rsync) in order to get consistent installations. Although having latest code is nice, its not our requirement for this project. - CS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Kwan Lowe<kwan.lowe at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks nate. >> So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3? >> > > It's much easier to grab the DVD iso and use that instead. There are a > couple approaches: > > 1) Loopback mount the DVD iso to an FTP/HTTP accessible filesystem. Very > quick and painless. > > 2) Copy the CD/DVD iso contents to a standard filesystem. If you do this it > allows you to copy the update RPMs to the same location, then use the > repository tools to create the repo meta-data. This method allows you to > install the latest version at once. > > For the first case: > mount -o loop /path/to/5.3_DVD.iso /var/ftp/pub/centos_5.3_x86 > > Your kickstart url would look like: > > url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86/ > > > In the second case, follow the instructions here: > http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >