Kickstart and RHEL 5

[Marcos Aurelio Rodrigues]

Paul,

i didn' t understand why you need to mount the cdrom, i think if you put the
files on the "/" of the image you dont need to do that.



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On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Paul Whitney <paul.whitney at mac.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 13:33 -0600, Joshua Gimer wrote:
> > You can do all of this in %post --nochroot. Where did you find that
> > you cannot do this in RHEL5?
> >
> > I think that you are misinterpreting the installation guide:
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-kickstart2-postinstallconfig.html
> >
> > Just copy your data from the media to where you would like under /mnt/
> > sysimage/.
> >
> > Have you tried this yet, or were you strictly basing this assumption
> > off of the installation guide?
> >
> > Joshua Gimer
> >
> > On May 5, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Paul Whitney wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to create a custom ISO using RHEL 5.
> > >
> > > In RHEL 4 it was possible to mount the cdrom in the kickstart file
> > > after
> > > install (%post --nochroot) and copy over files to the root homedir.
> > >
> > > Apparently that feature is no longer available according to the RHEL 5
> > > Installation Guide. Are there any suggestions on how to get a tar
> > > file,
> > > background images and a script loaded onto a system using either
> > > ks.cfg
> > > or some other means automatically? (i.e. no user interaction)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Paul W.
> > >
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