Newbie problem with kickstart post section

[Neerad Niksun]

Hi, Alain,

Thanks for pointing all this out.

Question. If some commands are required to be run in chroot where as others
in nochroot (ie copying the files from install media etc) . What in your
openion should be done.

You r right , rpm install might not work because of the restrictd env.  I
will try to figure out some of the ugly stuff for this too.

So , is there any possiblity other than including in comps.xml and hdlist ,
that the rpm can be installed in post section?

Neerad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neerad Niksun" <neeradm at in.niksun.com>
To: <art at caa.is>; "Discussion list about Kickstart"
<kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie problem with kickstart post section


> 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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