Kickstart with %post and RHEL 3.0 update 3

Greg Morgan drkludge at cox.net
Sat Sep 11 20:28:37 UTC 2004


Mike McLean wrote:
> Your ks file is not in unix text format.  It has  dos-style line endings.
> 
> You see, bash does not consider 0x0d be a whitespace character, so it 
> becomes part of the last argument.  It is as if you typed:
> 
> % ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/ks-post-reboot $'/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99ks-post-reboot\r'

You will have to use a program like dos2unix to convert the file. 
Another way to perform the dos to unix conversion is to edit your file 
with gvim or vim.  Use this sequence

vim mykickstartfile
:set ff=unix
ZZ

Vim is available for the MS Windows platform, if you are editing there.

Greg





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