Newbie questions about Kickstart

[Philip Prindeville]

Ok, I'm very confused.  I generated an FC5 dvd with the following:

%post --nochroot --log=/mnt/sysimage/root/post-install.log

ifconfig -a
netstat -n -r
mount

and was surprised that (a) no network interfaces are up, and hence
(b) no routes are installed, nor (c) is the DVD still mounted at this point.

Is that normal?  This would seem to make doing any sort of useful
work from within the %post scripting pretty difficult.

What am I missing?

-Philip