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 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 -- John Kennedy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100907/6c7f78e7/attachment-0001.html>
On 07/09/2010 16:22, John Kennedy 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 CD/DVD option to upgradeThe best way I can think of is to create a yum repository with the RPMs from the 4.8 image on the source server then create yum.repo file on the destination files and then do a yum update. There are lots of instructions online how to do it, do a search for "centos create yum repo iso" or something similar and you will get lots of hits. Gabriel
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 noYou 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/
John Kennedy 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 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 > -- > John Kennedy >Check to see if you have the following file on your system: /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo If you do, then just loopback mount the DVD image under /media/cdrom or /media/cdrecorder, and then use the yum command as described in that repo file: yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c4-media [command] Not sure if that works with "up2date" or not... haven't used up2date in a long time... -Greg