Sourcing the ks.cfg location from %post

[Chris Mckenzie]

That works awesome.

FYI for those that don't know, my /proc/cmdline in the %post looked like...

ks=nfs:192.168.1.1:/var/software/image/init/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img
BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz

I was able to parse out the ks.cfg location and use it in my %post script to
grab software that was in a relative location to the ks.cfg.

Thanks Christian.

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Christian Drexler
Sent: December 8, 2004 9:20 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Sourcing the ks.cfg location from %post


Hi Chris,
you can parse /proc/cmdline for this.

Regards

~christian
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:26:32 -0500  
Chris Mckenzie <Chris.McKenzie at entrust.com> wrote:

> Hi guys.
>  
> I'm trying to source the ks.cfg programmatically from the ks' %post 
> using Bash.
>  
> %post scripts copying files need to have source file locations 
> hardcoded. I wanted to have a ks that at %post would get the original 
> ks= source path from my isolinux.cfg label.
>  
> The files I want to copy are relative to the ks.cfg file, and I'm NFS 
> running the ks.cfg from isolinux.cfg on an "Install CD".
>  
> I was hoping to have my %post script derive the relative location of 
> the files to grab from the location of the ks.cfg.
>  
> For example:
>  
> isolinux.cfg label or at the "Install CD" boot prompt:
>  
>     ks=nfs:10.4.146.47:/var/software/init/ks.cfg
>  
> Then from the ks.cfg %post:
>  
>     %post
>     echo `dirname $0`
>  
> I was hoping `dirname $0` would give me the source path of the ks.cfg, 
> but it pointed to /tmp. (which is where I'll assume the installer 
> copied and read ks.cfg from)
>  
> Hardcoding the same base path 3 times isn't my preference and I can't 
> pass vars in a ks.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> Thanks!!!
>  
> - Chris


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