Thank you Patrick, Jason and Christopher. You guys are quick. I was using notepad on a windows box, but that was by habit only. I have an RH9 box sitting right here and I will use it and give it another go. Thanks for your speedy advice! -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Smith [mailto:patms@xxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 3:06 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Post Install Script Troubles Dont use wordpad to edit the files ;) I ran into the same problem recently, notepad works fine for me, but anything else in Windows ruins it. -- Regards, Patrick Smith Sr. Systems Administrator Everyone's Internet/Rackshack.net patms@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Robert Denton Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:54 PM To: 'kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Post Install Script Troubles Hello all, I am installing RH9 over HTTP and I am using a kickstart file on the same server. The installation itself runs flawlessly and every aspect of the ks.cfg seems to work except for the %post portion. I am trying to create a few directories as well as using the "sample" offered in the redhat.com tutorial. Here is the script: %post --nochroot echo "Kickstart-installed RH9 on `/bin/date`" > /mnt/sysimage/etc/motd mkdir /mnt/sysimage/var/www/html/sound mkdir /mnt/sysimage/var/www/html/code This script seems to run, but not the way I want it to. (Note that the line that starts with echo is from the redhat tutorial: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-kickst art2-postinstallconfig.html) The directories are created but with a question mark after them, and the motd file is not modified, but a file called motd^M is created with the correct verbiage in it. Thus an ls -a of the html dir produces: . .. code? sound? usage I have also tried the same script without the --nochroot and without the /mnt/sysimage/ but that doesn't work either. Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong here? Thanks in advance, Robert _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
