stage2.img still not patched?

Jake Vickers jake at v2gnu.com
Tue Aug 18 12:36:25 UTC 2009


Jake Vickers wrote:
> Is stage2.img still not patched to not eject the CD before the %post? 
> Or did the process change as far as mounting the media and copying 
> files to the new environment?
> I have a tarball that I need to copy to the destination environment 
> after the OS install and have been using a patched stage2 file I 
> whipped up from the 5.1 days and just tried to create an x86_64 image 
> but the file did not copy over from what I would assume to be the 
> stage2 not being patched. Can anyone confirm/deny?
> Thanks.
>
> For those that will ask, my %post is rather simple:
>
> %post --nochroot
> mkdir /mnt/sysimage/var/me
> cd /mnt/sysimage/var/me
> tar xzvf /mnt/source/me.tar.gz

Sorry, guess I should have given more information....
stage2 is not patched in RHEL 5.3, so it will eject the CD before the 
%post is run. This is easily rectified by modifying the dispatch.py file 
in stage2.img (see list archives for instructions) and then rebuilding 
the stage2.img file.




More information about the Kickstart-list mailing list