Hi Craig, I mount and NFS volume during the post section. Here is a piece of my post section. Try something like this...... %post ## mount an NFS server and copy files ## rsize & wsize make NFS connection faster than with default buffer of 4096 ## ro is read only ## the ip address of the NFS server is 10.1.1.1 ## /redhat.disks is the directory on the NFS server that I want to mount mkdir /mnt/tmp mount -o nolock,ro,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 10.1.1.1:/redhat.disks /mnt/tmp ## copy my tarred file to /usr/src cp /mnt/tmp/kernel/usrsrclinux242.tgz /usr/src ## unmount the NFS server umount /mnt/tmp rm -fr /mnt/tmp ## move to /usr/src and untar the file cd /usr/src tar -xzvf usrsrclinux242.tgz Craig Martin <martinc8@xxxxxxxxxxx>@redhat.com on 10/23/2001 10:34:07 AM Please respond to kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent by: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: post install copying Hi, I'm trying to do a kickstart installation via NFS. I must admit, this whole chroot thing in the %post directive has me baffled. I'm new to this and I'm hoping for some help on what I think is a common situation. After installing my packages, I'd like to copy some files to the new machine and run some scripts. The files fit (just barely) on my boot disk, but I'd like them to come from the same NFS share from which I just installed. Once the files are copied over, I'd like to run one Bourne Shell script and one perl script. I'm sure this is simple to many of you. Can someone just detail how this would work (i.e. can I do this in a chrooted environment? How do I mount the NFS share? The floppy disk?). Note, the NFS install works perfectly. I don't have any issues running the install all the way through the package installation. It's only the %post section that's failing. My current setup (which I know is wrong) is something like: ----------------------------------------------------------- %post --nochroot mount /mnt/flopply cp /mnt/floppy/setup.tar /tmp # ideally this should be NFS rather than floppy umount /mnt/floppy tar xvf /tmp/setup.tar ./setup1.sh ./setup2.pl ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance, Craig _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
