Kickstart and RHEL 5

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Whitney
> Sent: 05 May 2008 21:22
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Kickstart and RHEL 5
> 
> I have tried it and it is not working for me.  Could be that I am
doing
> something wrong..below is a snip of my ks.cfg file. After not getting
it
> to work, I referred to the manuals.  What am I misunderstanding from
the
> note?
> 
> %post --nochroot
> 
> mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/root/my_extra
> mkdir /tmp/iso
> mount /tmp/cdrom /tmp/iso
> 
> cp -fa /tmp/iso/Custom/logo /mnt/sysimage/root/my_extra
> cp -fa /tmp/iso/Custom/errata /mnt/sysimage/root/my_extra
> cp -fa /tmp/iso/Custom/post /mnt/sysimage/root/my_extra
> cp -fa /tmp/iso/Custom/lockdown.sh /mnt/sysimage/root/my_extra
> 
> This worked under RHEL 4. However, not working now at all.

I don't believe it is your problem but noteworthy for others reading the
thread. I had a lot of problems in trying to use flags for commands that
did not exists. I late on realized that anaconda uses busybox shell
which is scaled down versions of all the commands.

http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html

Regards