Well, I would like to relate my experience on this for the benefit of all newbies out there such as myself. Thanks to the speedy response of several people I knew immediately that the problem was that I was inadvertently including windows formatting characters at the end of the lines and this is where the question marks were coming from. First I decided to ftp get the ks file from the windows ftp server and edit it in vi and re-upload it. This did not work. The bad formatting was still there. Next I decided to create an all new ks file on my RH9 box in vi, and never open it or touch it with a windows editor, and upload it to the windows based FTP server from which I was doing my remote installs. I was certain this would work. Oddly it did not. The odd formatting was still there after the kickstart installation ran. So then I decided to make my RH9 box a webserver (on a private IP) upload the base and RPMS dirs to it and recreate a brand new ks.cfg in vi and placed it in the webroot of the RH box. Finally this worked. The secret, as it appears to this Linux newbie, is to never let it touch a windows machine in any way. Create the kickstart file in Linux and keep it in Linux. I am certain that some of the guys who answered my original query can shed some better light on this but I thought I'd chip in my observations anyway. There you have it. Robert -----Original Message----- From: John [mailto:red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 7:08 PM To: 'kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Re: Post Install Script Troubles On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Robert Denton wrote: > 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: Don't use Windows editors!!! -- Please, reply only to the list. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
