Jason, Thanks for your help. I wrote from the %pre section on an nfs mounted file system. The ramdisk will stay until the reboot at the end of the installation. Is there a way to increase its size to avoid using an nfs file system ? Thanks. Michel. Jason Kohles wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:42, msimoni@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > %pre > > echo "from %pre to /tmp" >> /tmp/test-file -> nothing goes in the file > > echo "from %pre to /mnt" >> /mnt/sysimage/tmp/test-file -> nothing either in > > the file > > > The second one will fail because the directory doesn't exist, since you > are in pre, you don't have any drives to write to yet. > > The first one should work, but keep in mind that /tmp is in the ramdisk, > so make sure you do something with the file in %post (like copy it to > the hard drive), or it will disappear when you reboot (and be aware that > the space available for you to write to files in the ramdsik is > limited). > > -- > Jason Kohles jkohles@xxxxxxxxxx > Senior Engineer Red Hat Professional Consulting > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
