About a week ago it was suggested that I use a kickstart file to install packages from an external repository (ATrpms) during CentOS 5.1 installs, so I have been giving it a go, unsuccessfully. I finally got enough information from the failures to figure out the problem, but I don't know what the solution is. It appears that despite having this: network --device=eth0 --bootproto=dhcp in the command section, the network is not working during %post execution and probably not during the system installation phase, either. I have tried installing nvidia-graphics169.07 (and the related pieces) in several ways, none of which worked. The first approach was to add this: repo --name=atrpms --baseurl=http://129.102.1.25/pub/atrpms/el5-i386/atrpms/stable in the command section and this: nvidia-graphics169.07 in the %packages section, but this failed. Note that the IP was used after several attempts to use dl.atrpms.net failed and I then discovered in the Installation Manual that, since I was using DHCP, name resolution was not working during the installation (or %post phase, for that matter). The second approach was to keep the repo --name... statement in the command section and use this for a (simplified) %post script: %post ( #Note: using subshell for logging, but it never works. yum -y --disablerepo=extras install nvidia-graphics169.07 ) 1>/root/Anaconda_post.log 2>&1 Finally, I dropped the repo --name... statement from the command section and tried copying from the kickstart medium an atrpms.repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d that looked like this: [atrpms] name=ATrpms for RHEL and CentOS $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://129.102.1.25/pub/atrpms/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 however, even this failed. Then, using the screen accessed with (I think) ctrl-alt-F2 which offered a shell, I tried it manually and discovered that the networking wasn't configured and (once I su'd to root), ifconfig -a reported the devices had no IP addresses. So, what do I do differently to get a kickstart file that will successfully install RPMs from ATrpms? I *could* install with a static IP, which may fix this problem, but my understanding is that the installed system would *also* be configured with the static IP, which is not what I want. Any help appreciated. Craig. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
