On Nov 4, 2008, at 6:39 , Kyle Powell wrote:
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tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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?
No, you certainly should be able to switch to VT 2 while the %post
script is
running. If anaconda seems to be finishing the post script quickly
and you have
a 'sleep 5000' in your post script, this would indicate the post
script is not
running completely, at least not far enough to reach the sleep
(sleep 5000 would
sleep for 5000 seconds, which is nearly an hour and a half).
%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
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.
When installing from CD or DVD, it will already be mounted at /mnt/
source. I
would recommend you use two post scripts. Copy the files from the CD
in a
- --nochroot post script, then run the install in a regular
(chroot'ed) post script.
%post --nochroot
mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/tmp/inst
cp /mnt/source/addon/* /mnt/sysimage/tmp/inst
%post
cd /tmp/inst
tar -zxvf preimage.tz
cd preimage
./install
cd ..
tar -zxvf nppt.tz
cd nppt
./install
Neat . Didn'r know you could have 2 %posts
2. How can I test thet %post without wasting a DVD each time?
If you have a second machine you could pull the ks.cfg via http, or
if you have
a floppy, you could get the kickstart file from the floppy drive.
These would
allow you to change the kickstart file without burning a new DVD
each time. If
you absolutely want to pull the kickstart file from the iso each
time (instead
of just changing the ks= line to point to the cdrom once all your
testing is
complete) you could kickstart a virtual machine and present the iso
file to the
VM without actually burning a DVD.
You can also use usb-stick
linux ks=hd:<partition_where_ks.cfg_is_located>
Just edit isolinux config if you want this to be default.
Once I pre-made a DVD image which wrote host-specific options to a
temporary file in the %pre section, based on the output of dmidecode
(machine serial number) , and later included the autogenerated file in
the main ks.config.
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