cdrom issue

[Keith Roberts]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com>
> Subject: cdrom issue
> 
> On CentOS4 we mounted the install cdrom in %post
> And copied some files over to the hard drive.
> This does not work with CentOS5.2
>
> %post --nochroot
> # Mount CDROM
> /usr/bin/mkdir /mnt/source
> # /usr/bin/mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/source
> /usr/bin/mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/source
>
> # Move PKGS Over to /tmp/PKGS
> /usr/bin/mkdir /mnt/sysimage/tmp/PKGS
> /usr/bin/cp -Rp /mnt/source/PKGS/* /mnt/sysimage/tmp/PKGS >/dev/null
> 2>&1
>
> # Unmount CDROM
> /usr/bin/umount /mnt/source
>
> %post
> # Run post install script
> /tmp/finish_install.sh
>
>
>
> -
> Gerald


Hi Gerald. I'm a new user to kickstart so please bear with 
me.

I managed to mount a seperate working Fedora root partition 
without using the --nochroot option. I had to make the 
device node as well. Here is the relevant part of my 
kickstart file:

Maybe this approach would help with your problem?

#---------------------------------------------------

# Packages and groups to install.
%packages --nobase
@british-support

# Needed for mknod.
coreutils
%end

#---------------------------------------------------

# Post installation script.
%post --interpreter /bin/bash --log=/root/F10-basic-2.ks-log --erroronfail

# Create the /mnt/F8-root directory.
mkdir /mnt/F8-root

#---------------------------------------------------
# Create the device node for /dev/sda1 drive.
mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
#---------------------------------------------------

# Mount the F8 root partition.
mount -v -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/F8-root

# Delete the existing resolv.conf file.
rm -fv /etc/resolv.conf

# Copy the working resolv.conf file.
cp -v /mnt/F8-root/etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

# Setup the network.
chkconfig --level 2345 network on

# Stop the network.
/etc/init.d/network stop

# Start the network.
/etc/init.d/network start

# Ping remote host 10 times to test internet connection.
ping -c 10 www.grc.com

%end


HTH

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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