Newbie problem with kickstart post section

[Neerad Niksun]

Hey! , nothing seems wrong with your env ;)

This is the way is it suppose to wrok.

This is how you should understand.

All the partitioning/installation and stuff you did while installation went
into /mnt/sysimage. This does not come into effect until you reboot the
system.

mean while you have a ristricted env to do some common stuff while
/mnt/sysimage just act as a normal directory.

Okay so if you wanna make changes to something , those should go into
/mnt/sysimage ... respective files.

Let me give you an example.

I needed to create a user in my post section. So this is what i did.

cp -f /mnt/sysimage/etc/passwd /etc/passwd
cp -f /mnt/sysimage/etc/group /etc/group
cp -f /mnt/sysimage/etc/shadow /etc/shadow
/mnt/sysimage/usr/sbin/useradd <user_name>  -d <usr_home_path> -s
/bin/bash -g <gorup> -G <group_member>, <group_member>.....
cp -f /etc/passwd /mnt/sysimage/etc/passwd
cp -f /etc/group /mnt/sysimage/etc/group
cp -f /etc/shadow /mnt/sysimage/etc/shadow

Also if you want to install packages there are two ways.

1) Include it in comps.xml and hdlist
2) In post section as described under.

mkdir /tmp/cd
mount /tmp/cdrom /tmp/cd

/mnt/sysimage/bin/rpm -i /tmp/cdrom /tmp/cd/<your_package_name>


Hope this helps.

Neerad Mittal
Lead Software Engineer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arnar Þórarinsson" <art at caa.is>
To: <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 3:46 AM
Subject: Newbie problem with kickstart post section


> Hi
> I'm having a hard time getting the %post section to do what I want to
> do, like turning services off and installing RPMs and fonts.
>
> chkconfig is not found unless I use /mnt/sysimage/sbin/chkconfig and
> then it can't find /etc/init.d
>
> rpm -qa gives a blank output, like no rpms are installed.
>
> I'm guessing that theres something wrong with my environment ;)
>
> post section runs as :
> %post --nochroot --interpreter=/bin/bash --log=/mnt/sysimage/root/post-
> install.log
>
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 telnet off
> /mnt/sysimage/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 telnet off
>
>
> System in RHEL WS 4.3
>
> what am I doing wrong here ????
>
> Regards.
>
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