> > It looks like this will work. Now I just need to find some way of > > grabbing the correct comps.xml file over the network. It > appears that > > wget, ftp, etc. is not available in %pre. Any suggestions on how to > > grab a file over the network? > > > > Are you sure? It looks like these guys are doing it: > > http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~erik/BOTD/partitioning/index.html > > I haven't tried it, but it looks like they are fetching a file > (conditionally) over http. Yes, I believe the network is available during %pre. I was looking to use /bin/sh (using an external command), since I don't know python. Looks like this is a chance to finally learn python. Thanks for all of your help. Eric.