<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>RHEL5 kickstart needs to mount cdrom in postinst</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2964" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=919583317-07052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>put:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=919583317-07052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>sleep 99999999</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=919583317-07052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=919583317-07052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>in your %post before you get to that part of your kickstart. Kickstart the box, open a terminal (Alt-F2), chroot to the build environment, and try to manually run your commands. Once you get it figured out, simply put those commands back into the kickstart.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chip</FONT></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Martin Steinmann<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 07, 2007 10:11 AM<BR><B>To:</B> kickstart-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RHEL5 kickstart needs to mount cdrom in postinst<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <P><FONT size=2>On RHEL4 and FC5 we have the following code in the post install section of the ks.cfg file. It mounts the CD the system just installed from and copies the CD's content to a recovery partition on HD. In order to be able to mount the cdrom, we had to run start_udev.<BR><BR>On RHEL5 this no longer seems to work. The ks.cfg post install section executes, but the /recovery/linux directory remains empty. It looks like as if it was not able to mount the cdrom.<BR><BR>Does anyone have an idea what could cause this different behavior?<BR><BR>#...Make copy of installation CD to the "/recovery" partition<BR>/sbin/start_udev<BR>mkdir /recovery/linux<BR>mkdir /tempdir<BR>mount /dev/cdrom /tempdir<BR>cp -a /tempdir/* /recovery/linux<BR>cp -a /tempdir/.discinfo /recovery/linux<BR>umount /tempdir<BR>rm -rf /tempdir<BR><BR>--martin<BR></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>