My shell code in the %post section of an all-CDROM-contained kickstart does not work the same as it network build. I'm still troubleshooting, but it appears I have a severly restricted shell environment during this phase. (Why would it be different from network install? same code?) Is it possible the %post section really does not kick in until after it's first reboot?? If so, that may be the difference, because I must manually, unmount the virtual CDROM after the first boot, or it will simply boot from the CDROM again & repeat all over. However, I do see the message that says it's doing post installation, but it's definately not working as expected. My new RHEL 5.1 32-bit VM is indeed installed, but with NONE of the post script stuff. I set up some echo statements to help me troubleshoot...note that it does not create a mount point like I tell it, and certainly does not copy off script: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %post --interpreter /bin/bash # echo "Entering into %POST section" >> /opt/POST.txt #export METHOD=NETWORK export METHOD=CDROM echo "METHOD=${METHOD}" >> /opt/POST.txt export VER=RHEL5_32 echo "VERSION=${VER}" >> /opt/POST.txt ##################### mkdir -p /cdrom /bin/mount -t iso96660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom # mount >> /opt/POST.txt echo "Copy and execute post configure script." >> /opt/POST.txt # cp /cdrom/third-party/rhel_post.bash /opt/rhel_post.bash ls -la /opt >> /opt/POST.txt [ -f /opt/rhel_post.bash ] && cd /opt;./rhel_post.bash||\ echo "Trying just copy from third-party...not /cdrom/third-party" >> /opt/POST.txt cp third-party/rhel_pst.bash /opt/rhel_post.bash ls -al /opt >> /opt/POST.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's weird, is that it produced an /opt/POST.txt? file and a /opt/POST.txt file: cat POST.txt? Entering into %POST section METHOD=CDROM VERSION=RHEL5_32 /dev/root on / type ext3 (ro) Copy and execute post configure script. total 24 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 09:19. drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 6 09:19.. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 121 Mar 6 09:19 POST.txt? total 32 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 09:19. drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 6 09:19.. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 Mar 6 09:19 POST.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271 Mar 6 09:19 POST.txt? cat POST.txt Tyring just copy from third-party..not /cdrom/third-party Any ideas? Gene