At Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:22:06 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > Hello All, > We have some machines running CentOS 4 Update 4 (4.4). We want to update > these boxes to the stock CentOS 4 Update 8 (4.8). > We have the 4.8 iso images. Is it possible to use up2date and have it use > the 4.8 mounted iso images on a remote (install) server as the repository? > The ISO's are accessible through http. These servers are remote with no You could mount the ISO's via the loopback device on the http server ('localeservername'): mkdir /var/www/centos48 mount -t iso9660 -r -o loop /path/to/dvdrom.iso /var/www/centos48 then add /var/www/centos44 to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Alias /centos48/ "/var/www/centos48/" <Directory "/var/www/centos48/"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> Then restart the httpd server: /sbin/service httpd restart Then on the machines you want to update: create /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-48-Http.repo: [c48-local-httpd] name=CentOS-4.8 - Local Httpd baseurl=http://localeservername/centos48/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 Then do yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c48-local-httpd update (The above was cribbed from the /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo) Basicly, the DVD *IS* a repository (corresponds to the base repo). > CD/DVD option to upgrade that way. > I have tried to Google this but can't seem to quite hit what I need. I found > one that shows up2date-config GUI setup but I do not have X running on this > server and do not want to screw up the config with the CLI version of it. > We need to go to stock versions to match our production RHEL 4.8 machines. > Thanks, > John -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/