RE: Post Install Script Troubles

[John <red computerdatasafe com au>]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Robert Denton wrote:

> Well, I would like to relate my experience on this for the benefit of all
> newbies out there such as myself.  Thanks to the speedy response of several
> people I knew immediately that the problem was that I was inadvertently
> including windows formatting characters at the end of the lines and this is
> where the question marks were coming from.  
> 
> First I decided to ftp get the ks file from the windows ftp server and edit
> it in vi and re-upload it.  This did not work.  The bad formatting was still
> there.  Next I decided to create an all new ks file on my RH9 box in vi, and
> never open it or touch it with a windows editor, and upload it to the
> windows based FTP server from which I was doing my remote installs.  I was
> certain this would work.  Oddly it did not.  The odd formatting was still
> there after the kickstart installation ran.
> 
> So then I decided to make my RH9 box a webserver (on a private IP) upload
> the base and RPMS dirs to it and recreate a brand new ks.cfg in vi and
> placed it in the webroot of the RH box. Finally this worked.  The secret, as
> it appears to this Linux newbie, is to never let it touch a windows machine
> in any way.  Create the kickstart file in Linux and keep it in Linux. I am
> certain that some of the guys who answered my original query can shed some
> better light on this but I thought I'd chip in my observations anyway.
> There you have it.

The secret is to learn your linux tools. vim _can_ do it: "set
fileformat unix"

tr can do it well enough for most purposes:
tr -d '\r' <badversion >goodversion

ftp can do it:
asc


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