Alt. 1. Invest in an rewritable DVD Alt. 2. Place the ks.cfg on a http/ftp server under the development phase <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:37 AM, <<a href="mailto:tony.chamberlain@lemko.com">tony.chamberlain@lemko.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> -----Original Message----- From: Jarle Bjørgeengen [mailto:<a href="mailto:jarle@bjorgeengen.net">jarle@bjorgeengen.net</a>] Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 01:29 PM To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart' </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Subject: Re: extra packages On Nov 4, 2008, at 6:39 , Kyle Powell wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > <a href="mailto:tony.chamberlain@lemko.com">tony.chamberlain@lemko.com</a> wrote: >> You seem not to be able to do ALT-F2 during the %post part. And it >> went very quickly (I just did sleep 5000 which I hope is about 8 >> minutes). >> It went way quicker than that, but the "Installing bootloader" is >> taking >> forver. I wonder whether my sleep statement is taking place there >> instead? > > No, you certainly should be able to switch to VT 2 while the %post > script is > running. If anaconda seems to be finishing the post script quickly > and you have > a 'sleep 5000' in your post script, this would indicate the post > script is not > running completely, at least not far enough to reach the sleep > (sleep 5000 would > sleep for 5000 seconds, which is nearly an hour and a half). > >> %post --nochroot >> mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom >> mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/cdrom >> mkdir /tmp/inst >> cp /mnt/cdrom/addon/*.tz /tmp/inst/ >> cd /tmp/inst >> tar -zxvf <a href="http://preimage.tz" target="_blank">preimage.tz</a> >> cd preimage >> ./install >> cd .. >> tar -zxvf <a href="http://nppt.tz" target="_blank">nppt.tz</a> >> cd nppt >> ./install >> >> 1. How do I access the addon directory on the DVD? I know it is >> there >> because on a Linux system I put the DVD in the reader and see it. > > When installing from CD or DVD, it will already be mounted at /mnt/ > source. I > would recommend you use two post scripts. Copy the files from the CD > in a > - --nochroot post script, then run the install in a regular > (chroot'ed) post script. > > %post --nochroot > mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/tmp/inst > cp /mnt/source/addon/* /mnt/sysimage/tmp/inst > > %post > cd /tmp/inst > tar -zxvf <a href="http://preimage.tz" target="_blank">preimage.tz</a> > cd preimage > ./install > cd .. > tar -zxvf <a href="http://nppt.tz" target="_blank">nppt.tz</a> > cd nppt > ./install > Neat . Didn'r know you could have 2 %posts >> 2. How can I test thet %post without wasting a DVD each time? > > If you have a second machine you could pull the ks.cfg via http, or > if you have > a floppy, you could get the kickstart file from the floppy drive. > These would > allow you to change the kickstart file without burning a new DVD > each time. If > you absolutely want to pull the kickstart file from the iso each > time (instead > of just changing the ks= line to point to the cdrom once all your > testing is > complete) you could kickstart a virtual machine and present the iso > file to the > VM without actually burning a DVD. You can also use usb-stick linux ks=hd:<partition_where_ks.cfg_is_located> Just edit isolinux config if you want this to be default. Once I pre-made a DVD image which wrote host-specific options to a temporary file in the %pre section, based on the output of dmidecode (machine serial number) , and later included the autogenerated file in the main ks.config. </div></div>========== I tried many values for "<partition_where_ks.cfg_is_located>" but none seemed to work. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>