Kickstart Post Problem

Paul M. Whitney paul.whitney at me.com
Tue Mar 22 13:23:30 UTC 2011


Thank you for the responses to my kickstart query.  After some additional searching and testing, I found this link below which provides the answer I needed.

http://nixcraft.com/centos-rhel-fedora/13739-how-mount-cdrom-kickstart-post.html

Paul 

"Can't is the cancer of happen." - Charlie Sheen


On Mar 16, 2011, at 09:52 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> Mr. Paul M. Whitney wrote:
> > I am at my wits end here. I am trying to create a custom RHEL 5.6 build.
> > At the end of the install in my ks.cfg file I have a section for the post
> > installation. I am trying to copy a file from the DVD to Root's home
> > directory. Here is the snippit I have:
> >
> > %post --nochroot
> >
> > ISO9660_DEV=`dmesg | grep -i iso9660 | head -1 | cut -d\ -f4`
> > DEV_NAME=${ISO9660_DEV%,}
>
> A little complicated there... First, having just put a DVD into my drive,
> I observed that there is *no* iso9660 line in dmesg until it's mounted.
> And then, it's from selinux that I get SELinux: initialized (dev hda, type
> iso9660), uses genfs_contexts
>
> Not sure what the cut -d\ -f4 is: is that a space, a tab, or what, after
> the \?
>
> You might want to put df in the ks file, and see what it sees.
> <snip>
> mark
>
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