My favorite, often overlooked, debugging and development tool: open a shell in %post: %post chvt 3 exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 sh Now you are in a chrooted shell, and you can alt+F2 to the no-chrooted shell console. When you exit the shell, on tty3, the %post script continues. Also, the "chvt 3" would enable you to see the output of your echo statements. hth, Ed On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 08:27, Paul Pianta wrote: > Hi people > > I have a question about kickstart in Fedora Core 1. In %post I am trying > to copy a file from the cd onto the newly installed system (it is a > modified mysqld init script - can't be bothered rebuilding mysql rpm > just for that) > > This is what I have tried so far for tests but none of it has worked: > %post --nochroot > echo "in nochroot post" > echo "doing first mkdir" > mkdir -p /mnt/source > echo "doing first mount" > mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/source > echo "trying first copy" > cp -f /mnt/source/Fedora/RPMS/extras/mysqld.init > /mnt/sysimage/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld > echo "trying first unmount" > umount /mnt/source > > %post > echo "in regular post" > echo "doing second mkdir" > mkdir -p /mnt/source > echo "doing second mount" > mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/source > echo "trying second copy" > cp -f /mnt/source/Fedora/RPMS/extras/mysqld.init > /mnt/sysimage/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld > echo "trying second unmount" > umount /mnt/source > > > I had done this in redhat 7.3 with just a simple: > %post --nochroot > cp -f /mnt/source/Fedora/RPMS/extras/mysqld.init > /mnt/sysimage/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld > > This doesn't work for me with Fedora Core 1 - any ideas how I can run my > copy command while the cd is mounted - either mounted by me or still > mounted from install? > > thanks
