Ejecting CD after kickstart installation

[Joe Van Dyk]

You should be able to eject the CD 30 seconds after starting the
machine.  I don't know why you'd want to wait until the %post starts.

On 2/20/06, Mattias Andersson <tiaskillen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marc!
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> This was actually one of the first things I tried and it did not work.
> I managed to get it working now though, and what I had to do was to change
> the path for the eject-command. It seems like Fedora, before running the
> %post -part of the installation actually unmounts the temporary installation
> system that is mounted and mounts the newly installed system.
> Therefore, to make this work with Fedora 3 I added the following to the
> %post part of the Kickstart-configuration:
>
> echo "Ejecting CD"
> mkdir /mnt/hda
> mkdir /mnt/hdb
> mkdir /mnt/hdc
> mkdir /mnt/hdd
>
> mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
> mknod /dev/hdb b 3 64
> mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
> mknod /dev/hdd b 22 64
>
> echo '/dev/hda /mnt/hda iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> echo '/dev/hdb /mnt/hdb iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> echo '/dev/hdc /mnt/hdc iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> echo '/dev/hdd /mnt/hdd iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
>
> /usr/bin/eject /dev/hda
> /usr/bin/eject /dev/hdb
> /usr/bin/eject /dev/hdc
> /usr/bin/eject /dev/hdd
>
> Thank you all for coming with tips!
>
> Mattias
>
> >From: "Marc Wiatrowski" <wia at iglass.net>
> >Reply-To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> >To: "'Discussion list about Kickstart'" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> >Subject: RE: Ejecting CD after kickstart installation
> >Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:01:15 -0500
> >
> >I got this from the list a while back and has been working for me
> >with Enterprise 3.  You could probably narrow down the devices,
> >but this just makes sure it hits everything.
> >
> >hopefully its useful,
> >marc
> >
> >---
> >%post --nochroot
> >
> >mkdir /mnt/hda
> >mkdir /mnt/hdb
> >mkdir /mnt/hdc
> >mkdir /mnt/hdd
> >
> >mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
> >mknod /dev/hdb b 3 64
> >mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
> >mknod /dev/hdd b 22 64
> >
> >echo '/dev/hda /mnt/hda iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> >echo '/dev/hdb /mnt/hdb iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> >echo '/dev/hdc /mnt/hdc iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> >echo '/dev/hdd /mnt/hdd iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> >
> >/mnt/sysimage/usr/bin/eject /dev/hda
> >/mnt/sysimage/usr/bin/eject /dev/hdb
> >/mnt/sysimage/usr/bin/eject /dev/hdc
> >/mnt/sysimage/usr/bin/eject /dev/hdd
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mattias Andersson
> > > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:14 AM
> > > To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> > > Subject: Ejecting CD after kickstart installation
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm installing Fedora 3 on a lot of machines in our rendering
> > > farm using a
> > > kickstart installation.
> > > The best would be if I could somehow get the kickstart to
> > > eject the cd
> > > straight after it has finished the first phase, i.e. before the first
> > > reboot. Cause then I don't need to connect a monitor and
> > > keyboard to the
> > > machine, all I need to do is to put the first installation CD
> > > and let it
> > > install via NFS and eventually it would just be done.
> > > The network path and such information for the installation is
> > > provided via
> > > DHCP and the installation CD has been slightly modified to
> > > boot straight in
> > > to the kickstart-mode.
> > >
> > > Has anyone been succesful in doing this?
> > >
> > > Any suggestions would be very much apprecieated.
> > >
> > > Mattias
> >
> >
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