Dan Carpenter wrote: > On 6/24/05, Dan Trainor <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>Is it possible to drop to a sh shell in or after %post, so that I can >>poke around and get familiar with the %post enviornment to see about >>donig some things later on? > > > add these lines to your %post. > > echo "Dropping to a shell" > open -c 8 bash > read tmp > > The echo prints to tty3 so you probably won't see it... Not sure how > to put stuff on the first tty. This will pause the install until you > press Enter on the front screen. You can switch to tty8 to do > whatever you want. > > regards, > dan carpenter > Dan - Awesome, that's what I was looking for. I'm having troule finding out why I can't install two additional RPMs in %post, saying that the files are not present. I am copying them from /mnt/source/thedirthatiputfilesin to /mnt/sysimage/tmp/mynewdir, so I'd like to troubleshoot that. Thanks -dant