Hi, Well, yes you are right. I am trying to copy a directory on the CD (extra) to the root user's home directory. Is that not possible at all? I get errors that the source directory does not exist. Regards, Peter Lewandowski -----Original Message----- From: Seth Alford [mailto:sethal@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: den 22 juni 2001 06:45 To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: post installation scripts --- Peter Lewandowski <Peter.Lewandowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi again.. > > Thanks for the help Wouter. I got that part working > now. > > The kickstart installation doesn't halt now, but I > still haven't succeded > with the copying part. I want to copy a directory > from the installation CD > to the /root directory. my guess was to do: > > %post --nochroot > cp -rfp /mnt/source/extra/ /root/ > > The error message I get is: /mnt/source/extra: no > such file or directory. > But from the console (during the installation) I am > able to copy (using the > command above) the directory to /root. my question > is what is the path to > the cdrom within the kickstart file? Or how can copy > the directory from the > cdrom to the harddrive. > .... I know that you mentioned /mnt/sysimage/root previously in this thread. But, let me ask a stupid question anyway. You're talking about copying from /mnt/source/extra to /mnt/sysimage/root/, right? This sort of thing does work for me. Here's a fragment of my kickstart file that I used with RH 7.0 (sorry for the word wrap:) %post --nochroot cp /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/glibc-common*rpm /mnt/sysimage/tmp Further down in the kickstart file, I had another, non-chrooted %post script, which did something like: cd /tmp rpm -ivh glibc-common*rpm You might ask why I was doing this. Why not just include the glibc-common in the %packages list? I tried, but as I recall, rpm complained about a missing link, and wouldn't install glibc-common correctly. It worked after everything else was installed. The glibc-common rpm was from RedHat's Errata page, and was intended for installation on already installed systems. --Seth sethal@xxxxxxxxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
