Re: Using post to copy files from floppy to hardrive

[Michael <mutk iprimus com au>]

Sérgio Bastos wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I've been trying to create a configuration file for a while now, and I 
> still can't figure out how to make it work.
> I created a kickstart configuration file, which I load of a floppy, the 
> installation is supposed to occur of a CD drive.  Everything works fine, 
> except at the end I want to copy some files out of the floppy and move 
> them to the hard disk, and this is the thing I can't get to work.
> This is a part of my configuration file.
>
> %post --nochroot
> cat /mnt/source/oraclelogin >> /mnt/sysimage/home/oracle/.bash_profile
> cp /mnt/source/smb.conf /mnt/sysimage/etc/samba/
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Sérgio S. Bastos

Don't know if this helps you in your situation..

I have setup %post --interpreter /bin/bash and used mcopy in %post 
section to copy floppy to /tmp/.

ie
%post --interpreter /bin/bash
mcopy a: /tmp/   # Where floppy contains 'someScript'
/bin/chmod a+x /tmp/someScript  # In case it isn't executable already
open -s -w -- /bin/bash /tmp/someScript

I know the interpretor directive for %post may be redundant, and that 
using 'open' is not necessarily the best way. But it works for me (tm)

Cheers,
Michael