On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:55:26PM -0600, Marc Benstein wrote: > I was curious if anyone has integrated yum into a kickstart > installation. At the present time I do a kickstart install from a local > web server and then run a script that handles all the updates via yum. > Has anyone successfully used the %post section of the kickstart file to > achieve this? And how did you do it? There are many many ways. Here is but one: %post exec > /root/kickstart_post.log 2>&1 YUMCONF=http://server.com/path/to/yum.conf YUM="/usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 1 -y -c $YUMCONF" /sbin/chkconfig --add yum /sbin/chkconfig yum on /sbin/service yum start $YUM update yum $YUM update Note, you may also enjoy the "group*" family of commands and the associated groups definitions. Search this list using google with site: to find them. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
