Keith Roberts wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Gerald Waugh wrote:
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: cdrom issue
On CentOS4 we mounted the install cdrom in %post
And copied some files over to the hard drive.
This does not work with CentOS5.2
%post --nochroot
# Mount CDROM
/usr/bin/mkdir /mnt/source
# /usr/bin/mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/source
/usr/bin/mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/source
# Move PKGS Over to /tmp/PKGS
/usr/bin/mkdir /mnt/sysimage/tmp/PKGS
/usr/bin/cp -Rp /mnt/source/PKGS/* /mnt/sysimage/tmp/PKGS >/dev/null
2>&1
# Unmount CDROM
/usr/bin/umount /mnt/source
%post
# Run post install script
/tmp/finish_install.sh
-
Gerald
Hi Gerald. I'm a new user to kickstart so please bear with me.
I managed to mount a seperate working Fedora root partition without
using the --nochroot option. I had to make the device node as well. Here
is the relevant part of my kickstart file:
Maybe this approach would help with your problem?
#---------------------------------------------------
# Packages and groups to install.
%packages --nobase
@british-support
# Needed for mknod.
coreutils
%end
#---------------------------------------------------
# Post installation script.
%post --interpreter /bin/bash --log=/root/F10-basic-2.ks-log --erroronfail
# Create the /mnt/F8-root directory.
mkdir /mnt/F8-root
#---------------------------------------------------
# Create the device node for /dev/sda1 drive.
mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
#---------------------------------------------------
Risky.
Trust me, you don't want two device nodes for one device. I would fully
expect harm to the filesystem. If you get away with it, you're lucky.
Whether to use --chroot is a often matter of taste and coding,
influenced by available resources including device nodes.
I don't know where anaconda creates its device nodes now, they used to
be in /tmp and only exist when required. It might be now that anaconda
relies on the kernel or dbus or something else creating them somewhere.
When in the %post and %pre scripts, device nodes for the target storage
exist. Probably they do for the install device too, but it's a long time
since I looked, mostly I install off the LAN (using http).
--
Cheers
John
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