Steve,
I replied regarding setting up a hardlink/softlink to the file in /mnt/sysimage but that won't work because I won't be able to softlink/hardlink /tmp/ks-script while its running.
so the alternative would be to setup another script and have that other script excute in chrooted env and then exit and return back to the non-chrooted post install system.
what do you think?
I found when using the kickstart stuff that the %post side of things was already done within a chroot environment.
A copy of my %post script was as follows
In this case I had a "changes" tgz file that I uncompressed from the cdrom into the chroot environment, I then used these files to customise my installation
(at this point as well the /dev directory did not appear to contain a lot of the standard devices, probably due to makedev init script not being run)
Please note - this was a very rushed quick and dirty script - it worked but if i had time to do things differently there would be quite a bit of cleaning up I'd do :-)
%post
# it appears we are in a chroot jail
# make cdrom device (hda)
mknod /tmp/cdrom b 3 0 mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 mkdir /mnt/cdrom
# mount it
mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# uncompress the changes tgz onto the hard drive
cd /
echo "* Uncompressing TGZ file" tar -zxf /mnt/cdrom/changes.tgz
echo "* Modifying system.."
# update the fwman and backup directorys
echo "- Copying fwman and backup directories.." cp -a /changes/fwman/* /fwman/ cp -a /changes/backup /backup
# update system files as needed
echo "- modifying /etc.." cat /changes/etc/passwd >> /etc/passwd cat /changes/etc/shadow >> /etc/shadow cat /changes/etc/group >> /etc/group cat /changes/etc/crontab >> /etc/crontab
cp -f /changes/etc/iptables.boot /etc/iptables.boot cp -f /changes/etc/iptables.boot /etc/iptables.conf cp -f /changes/etc/hosts /etc/hosts cp -f /changes/etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf cp -f /changes/etc/services /etc/services cp -f /changes/etc/fstab /etc/fstab cp -f /changes/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date cp -f /changes/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth5 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ cp -f /changes/etc/xinetd.d/autoton /etc/xinetd.d/autoton cp -f /changes/etc/init.d/sme_firewall /etc/init.d/sme_firewall cp -f /changes/etc/init.d/sme_netconfig /etc/init.d/sme_netconfig cp -f /changes/etc/rc.sysinit /etc/rc.sysinit
# Setup symlinks for the iptables stuff ln -s /sbin/iptables /usr/local/sbin/iptables ln -s /sbin/iptables-save /usr/local/sbin/iptables-save ln -s /sbin/iptables-restore /usr/local/sbin/iptables-restore
# Create home directories
USERID=1000 GROUPID=1000
for each in user1 user2 user3 user4; do
mkdir /home/$each
cp -a /etc/skel/.??* /home/$each
chown -R $USERID:$GROUPID /home/$each
USERID=$(($USERID+1))
GROUPID=$(($GROUPID+1))
done# setup the firstboot script
echo "- setting up first-boot.." cp -f /changes/first-boot /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S05first-boot cp -f /changes/check-cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S09check-cd cp -f /changes/etc/rc.d/rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.local
# eject CDROM echo "- cleaning up.."
umount /mnt/cdrom
# delete the /tmp/cdrom file rm -f /tmp/cdrom
# For some reason /dev/cdrom isn't being created - make it now ln -s /dev/hda /dev/cdrom
# setup grub rm -rf /boot mkdir /boot cp -a /changes/boot/* /boot/ sleep 1 grub-install /dev/sda
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