How do you make a installable copy of Fedora 14's initial 10 + 437 updates?

lindav · 05-27-2011, 11:15 PM

How do you make a installable rpm copy of Fedora 14's initial 10 + 437 updates?

I have 10 erased/dban cleaned hard drives with fresh F14 installs, to do the primary update in Fedora 14, but don't have a personal residential Internet connection.
I've searched all over the Net for the updates download. Can't find it.

It would be better if I could set up a Fedora hard drive the way I likes it, and make a live CD or flash of it as it is, to install on erased hard drives. Is that possible?

16pide · 05-28-2011, 03:16 AM

I think a solution would be this: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/hal_canary/yum/
the idea being to do a local mirror of the repository. Example was with Fedora 1, but same applies to Fedora 14, or any rpm based distribution I'm sure.

Then the way you would use it, is: sometimes you take the http server to a place with internet access, rsync the repository, bring it back home, and on the 10 machines, run yum update.

Enjoy

knudfl · 05-28-2011, 05:06 AM

... And the 6,000 updates are here http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...ux/updates/14/

32bits i386 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...dates/14/i386/
64bits x86_64 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...tes/14/x86_64/

End of updates : Probably Dec 2011. ( End of life : Jan 2012.)

RockDoctor · 05-28-2011, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lindav

It would be better if I could set up a Fedora hard drive the way I likes it, and make a live CD or flash of it as it is, to install on erased hard drives. Is that possible?

It's possible. The tool you want is revisor.

jefro · 05-28-2011, 03:45 PM

http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/08/21/...linux-systems/

lindav · 05-30-2011, 10:53 PM

I installed Revisor.

Am trying to find a link in that list of downloads to download them all like how Fedora updates itself. I can only imagine downloading them one at a time, is a scary thought. Is there a basic link to a download of the 10+437 updates that Fedora finds after a fresh install? just in case I can't get Revisor working, and well what do you know, just my luck, Revisor doesn't open. Any ideas why Revisor won't open?

lindav · 05-30-2011, 10:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 16pide

I think a solution would be this: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/hal_canary/yum/
the idea being to do a local mirror of the repository. Example was with Fedora 1, but same applies to Fedora 14, or any rpm based distribution I'm sure.

Then the way you would use it, is: sometimes you take the http server to a place with internet access, rsync the repository, bring it back home, and on the 10 machines, run yum update.

Enjoy

I hope someone is working to put all that under a button.
Any ideas on what might come close to bringing that huge mess of codes into a simple user friendly package?

Prob running yum update without a connection is that yum crashes on the first bump, without a net connection, but you probably mean Terminal.
Do you know how to trick the OS into believing it is connected when it isn't?

Can you tell me why those updates aren't included in the F14 iso CD?
Is it because it wouldn't fit on the CD, because of the multilingual clutter?
Can you tell me why there isn't an exclusive English F-14 quick load iso?