After a bit of time I finally was able to make an installation DVD of CentOS4.5 with a ks.cfg file (made by anaconda during a previous installation). I placed it in the same directory as CentOS, isolinux, etc. (i.e. the top directory) and can do linux ks=cdrom:ks.cfg This works fine. After installation there are a couple other things I do: untar two files and install them. For instance, if the file is called xyz.tz I do a tar -zxvf xyz.tz cd xyz ./install these are my own install packages (one installs a VPN and the other just does stuff like add users, install java, etc). I want to use the %post of my ks.cfg file to do these automatically. On the same install disk, before doing the mkisofs, I made in the top directory a directory called "addon" and put my two tar files, preimage.tz and nppt.tz. Then from examples I modified the ks.cfg file like this: %post --nochroot mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mkdir /tmp/inst cp /mnt/cdrom/addon/*.tz /tmp/inst/ cd /tmp/inst tar -zxvf preimage.tz cd preimage ./install cd .. tar -zxvf nppt.tz cd nppt ./install I wanted to access the addon directory on the CD and from what I could tell to do that you had to do the mount of /tmp/cdrom. During install it said it was executing the postinstall and I did not see any errors, but nothing worked. There was no /mnt/cdrom directory, and nothign was installed. Unfortunately, the install did not show any errors and the stuff was not in /root/install.log. I can experiment and do things like df >> /root/mylog.txt and mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 2>&1 >> /roote/mylog.txt to see where the files from the CD really are and what is going wrong, but every time I do debugging I have to waste another DVD making an installation DVD. So two questions: 1. How do I access the addon directory on the DVD? I know it is there because on a Linux system I put the DVD in the reader and see it. 2. How can I test thet %post without wasting a DVD each time? _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
