none none wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a red hat AS 4 machine that is cut off from the internet for > security reasons. I am not able to do the usual "up2date" because of > that. Does anyone know how to update the patches without Internet > connection? > > thanks, > donald. > Brute force approach - download all the update RPMs on a machine connected to the Internet, burn them to a CD, and mount the CD on the Red Hat machine. As root, change to the CD, and run "rpm -Fvh *.rpm". This will installed RPMs, but not install new RPMs the way "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" would. It does have a problem if packages get split into two RPMs, or depends on a package the old one didn't. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
