How to cause an installation failure in the %pre script

Gianluca Varenni gianluca.varenni at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 16:47:39 UTC 2009


That did the trick.

Thanks!

GV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schneiders" <bschneiders at woti.com>
To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: How to cause an installation failure in the %pre script


> >From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
>
> %pre --erroronfail
>        If the pre-installation script fails, this option will cause an 
> error dialog to be displayed and will halt installation. The error message 
> will direct you to where the cause of the failure is logged.
> - Bryan Schneiders
>
> Gianluca Varenni wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm preparing a custom Fedora 10 Install CD with kickstart. In the %pre 
>> script, I check the presence of a specific RAID controller (and disks) 
>> and reconfigure it. If the RAID controller is not there (or something 
>> fails during the reconfiguration), I need to fail the installation of 
>> Fedora.
>>
>> Is there a way from the %pre script to return a failure?
>>
>> Have a nice day
>> GV
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