<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE>@page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.EmailStyle17 { COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US vLink=purple link=blue> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>I'm not sure how you are starting the kickstart, but the way I would probably do this is to simply remove the rpms BEFORE kickstarting the box. As long as I was touching the box anyway, I would copy the kickstart kernel down to the box, and set it up in grub to boot. This way you would still be only touching each box once.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Chip</DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Goller Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:22 AM To: kickstart-list@redhat.com Subject: removing rpms in %pre during kickstart upgrade installation </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> Hi, I’m currently embroiled in a project to upgrade a RHEL3 installation to RHEL4 unattended via kickstart. I need to do some cleanup work in the %pre section on the existing installation. (installation state is known and fixed) More specifically, I need to remove some rpms. I have tried this two ways. First, I tried using rpm –r to reset the root of the effective filesystem to /mnt/sysimage (I mount the filesystem manually) but that didn’t seem to work for some reason. What I’m doing now is mounting the partition, writing a script (removerpms.sh) into /mnt/sysimage/tmp, then running chroot /mnt/sysimage /tmp/removerpms.sh. Afterwards I umount the partition. The rpms are successfully removed, however anaconda subsequently errors out because the umount has failed. I found that /proc was getting mounted as a side effect of the script running, so I added a umount for that. Here’s the weird part: If I deliver the kickstart file over the network, and use an HTTP-based install source, it works. However, if I change the kickstart file to use CD installation, and put it on the CD, it errors out because umount doesn’t work. /etc/mtab reveals nothing mounted other than /mnt/sysimage, Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I’m about to compile a static version of lsof to check on this, but if anyone has successfully solved this problem before (removing rpms in %pre via kickstart) I’d appreciate some pointers. Google has not been good to me. -Sean.</DIV></BODY></HTML>