RHEL5 - copy files from DVD during %post
Gerald Waugh
gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com
Wed Feb 11 05:02:30 UTC 2009
John Oliver wrote;
>
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:03:34AM -0600, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have tried several things.
> > Including changing usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py
> > >
> > > * add this line into the setSteps function
> > > dispatch.skipStep("methodcomplete")
> >
> > and changing usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py
> >
> > > ("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
> > > ("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
> > >>
> > > for
> > >>
> > > ("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
> > > ("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
> > -
> >
> > But always get "CentOS CD not found error"
>
> I'm glad I'm not the only one who got that!
>
> I'm not sure when CentOS 5.3 will be released, but using
> RHEL5.3 got me past this issue. I could put the stage2.img
> from RHEL5.3 on an FTP server for you to try if you like.
>
John,
I used unsquashfs for stage2, edited usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py
changing the following lines.
("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
changed to;
("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
ran ksquashfs on the unsquashed stage2 and it worked fine! :)
full description below... I was using BlueOnyx-5.2-20090107.iso
==================================================================
# Do the following to fix the issue not running %post scripts:
# Note that the *.img files use the squashfs file system.
# if the tools are not on the system yum install them.
yum -y install squashfs-tools mkisofs cdrecord
# insert install-cd into cdrom
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mkdir /home/BlueOnyx
mkdir /home/BlueOnyx/ISOs
mkdir /home/BlueOnyx/BlueOnyx-5.2-20090107
cd /mnt/cdrom
# move the iso to a rw area
tar -c * | tar -C /home/BlueOnyx/BlueOnyx-5.2-20090107 -xf-
cd /home/BlueOnyx/BlueOnyx-5.2-20090107
cp /mnt/cdrom/.discinfo .
umount /mnt/cdrom
# remove the install cd and insert a fresh CD
cd /home/BlueOnyx/BlueOnyx-5.2-20090107/images
unsquashfs stage2.img
cd squashfs-root
vi usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py
# find these lines (need to reverse them)
("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
#and change to
("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
# note with vi you will have to use :w! to write the ro file
# recreate the ram file system:
cd ..
mksquashfs squashfs-root ../../stage2.img
cp ../../stage2.img stage2.img
rm -rf squashfs-root
cd ../
mkisofs -P CentOS -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat\
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -r -J -T -o
../ISOs/BlueOnyx-5.2-20090107-1.iso .
cd ../ISOs
# note dev arguement may be different execute 'cdrecord scanbus' to find
dev= info
cdrecord -v dev=5,0,0 BlueOnyx-5.2-20090107-1.iso
Gerald
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