It's not elegant, but if the stuff you need to copy across is small enough, you can create a ramdisk in %pre, copy stuff to it, then mount it in %post. This is the only way I've ever found to get info from %pre to %post. remember to umount the ram disk at the end of %pre, or it won't be available to mount in %post. Chip -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason Edgecombe Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:27 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: RHEL5 Ejecting CD Before %post Goetz Rieger wrote: > Jason Edgecombe wrote: >> Goetz Rieger wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I'm building a completely CD/DVD based RHEL5 kickstart install. I've >>> to integrate additional stuff like JBoss and Raid utilities. I have >>> tried the same way I've done it a lot of times with RHEL4 by >>> mounting and accessing the CD/DVD in the %post stage. >>> >>> Apart from the /tmp/cdrom device file disappearing after the >>> packages are installed (does make mounting the CD not easier) it >>> looks like the CD is ejected before the post scripts are run. To >>> verify I did a: >>> >>> %post >>> echo "Sleeping in %post..." > /tmp/anaconda_dbg.log sleep 180 %post >>> --nochroot echo "Sleeping in %post --nochroot..." >> >>> /mnt/sysimage/tmp/anaconda_dbg.log >>> sleep 180 >>> >>> The CD is clearly ejected before %post is done. So remounting to get >>> to my custom files is out of question. Am I overlooking something >>> obvious or is there a way to prevent this behaviour? >> >> eject -t /dev/device will retract an open motorized cdrom tray. > It's a recent IBM xSeries which, like most servers I've worked on in > the last years, comes with a laptop-style cdrom. So no option... bummer.... _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
