[TriLUG] Making copies of RH's CDs?

James Manning jmm at computer.org
Tue Sep 4 16:58:51 EDT 2001


[Jon Carnes]
> How about just including the Updates on a third CD and let them mount it
> after install, then just rpm -U *.rpm (from the mounted Update CD).  That
> keeps it real simple, and allows you to update just the one CD as needed.

I'd recommend -F instead, since updates to things you didn't want to
install in the first place would be silly to install. :)

IMHO, the process isn't really that complex to start with (see NCSU's
realmkit, Duke's dulug distro, etc), but I guess ymmv
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