[SLL] Setting up install server for CentOS 5.0 with updates

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:55:59 -0400
>Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
>
>> I don't know of any docs, but if you're using kickstart, you can add
>> yum repos in your kickstart config that will be used during install.
>> One such repo could be the updates repo.  You'll need to be using
>> either exploaded NFS or http install methods, isos won't work.
>> Anaconda uses yum to do the package seeking and installing, so if yum
>> finds a newer package <foo> in your addon repo, it will install that
>> instead of the <foo> in your base repo.
>
>
>Whoops, hit enter before I could give an example:
>
>url --url=http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/5.0/os/x86_64/
>repo --name Centos5Updates --baseurl http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/5.0/updates/x86_64/
>
>The first line informs anaconda what the base install method is, url,
>via a mirror in Oregon.  The second line adds the Centos 5 updates repo
>to the mix.

Thanks Jesse.  That should do the trick.

Are there rsync servers that can be used to mirror the centos
updates locally?

Bill
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