You seem not to be able to do ALT-F2 during the %post part. And it went very quickly (I just did sleep 5000 which I hope is about 8 minutes). It went way quicker than that, but the "Installing bootloader" is taking forver. I wonder whether my sleep statement is taking place there instead? I did do a couplf of "echo" and "ls" and "pwd" in the %post and redirected the output so I hope if this thing finishes that I will be able to read the log stuff. -----Original Message----- From: Shabazian, Chip [mailto:Chip.Shabazian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 3, 2008 10:20 PM To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart' Subject: RE: extra packages Put a "sleep 9999999999" in your %post, then go to the alt-f2 console and take a look around. I forget where it is, but I believe it's already mounted, so you can just copy it using the --nochroot %post first. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 7:01 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: extra packages 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 _______________________________________________ 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
