Do as I suggested earlier, put a sleep 9999999 in your %pre, kickstart the box, open a shell (Alt-F2) and test it. Try a wget, look at what's in /tmp (for example, you will see the kickstart file has been copied there), if you are building over nfs, see what's mounted where, etc. When you do this, you are working in the same build environment that kickstart is working in. Anything you can do here, you can do in kickstart. Anything you can't access here, kickstart can't access. You can do the same thing for your %post, except that in order to be in the same environment (unless you use nochroot), you will need to chroot /mnt/sysimage first. Chip -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Denton Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:59 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: %include syntax and usage Jesse, that's interesting approach. I have actually tried using wget but I get the error that wget is not a known command. I usually do not use a %pre section. Where should I put the wget? In the %post? Don't I need to declare packages before the %post section? Robert Denton Network Administrator Headsprout 800.401.5062 x1305 www.headsprout.com On Sep 13, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 18:38, Robert Denton wrote: >> Right, I see what you mean about the documentation. I would love for >> one of the maintainers of kickstart to pipe in regarding how to use >> include in kickstart scripts. Where does the "/path/to/file" need to >> live in order for the install to see it. That is very confusing. > > The path is relative to the file system on the system being installed. > I generate them in %pre to dump to /tmp/packages (since that's > writable memdisk), or wget them to /tmp/packages so my %include is > %include /tmp/packages. > > Think of it like this, once you've started the install, go to tty2 > where you would get a shell, and that file system would be where your > file needs to live. > > -- > Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) > Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) > GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/ > jkeating.j2solutions.pub) > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
