[NTLUG:Discuss] Creating distro install disks with updates

Daniel Hauck daniel at yacg.com
Sun Aug 19 21:57:23 CDT 2007


I wish I could point to the magic web site, but what you're talking 
about sounds an awful lot like the Fedora Respin project.  Perhaps you 
might find some clues there?


Leroy Tennison wrote:
> I'm wanting to create a CentOS 5 DVD containing the current updates to 
> the RPMS.  I already have the original DVD.  I'm hoping all I need to do is:
> 
> mount the original dvd image using -o loop
> download the updated rpms from an update mirror
> copy the updated rpms over the mounted image rpms, overwriting as needed
> umount the image
> burn the result
> 
> Is there anything I'm missing?  MD5 or SHA1 sums somewhere that the 
> installation checks?  Do I need to update the repodata files?
> 
> Any insight would be most appreciated.
> 
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