FC6 kickstart doesn't post install
 

Hi,
A first post for me...
I have a number of kickstart installations for FC3,4,5 and the
kickstart files are all the same between versions.
The problem I have is that FC6 does not run the post install
completely.. The mkdir is done, The mount and others are not.

The last ten lines of the ks file are as follows.
If I login and type the commands in, everything proceeds.
Any ideas on the problem or where to look for errors??

@ everything
e2fsprogs
kernel

%post
/bin/mkdir -p /mnt/fc6-i386
/bin/mount -o tcp,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 IP_number:/nfs_dir/fc6-i386 /mnt/fc6-i386
cd /mnt/fc6-i386/post/control
./INSTALL

Replying to my own post
 

Taken a few days but I have solved it ( a number of issues)

** Commands that were working in FC3,4,5 are not in the same
place for FC6. All my /bin/xxx appear to have shifted to
/usr/bin and /bin is now a link to /sbin (which has very
few commands) I removed the directory part and depended on the
PATH to find them.

BUT....
** my copying and running of a shell script wouldn't work
even with the commands corrected.
It might be a default change but FC6 wouldn't allow me to
copy files or make changes to the newly installed disk
without the following on the post line --nochroot
I found out about this flag ( --erroronfail ) in
/usr/share/doc/anaconda-11.1.1.3/kickstart-docs.txt

which was most helpful in debugging the post install errors
(even though it took a full install to get to the post part.)
Here is a similar portion of the %post of the ks file

%post --nochroot --erroronfail
/usr/bin/mkdir -p /mnt/fc6-i386
# resolv.conf not working yet so have to have IP addresses
/usr/bin/mount -o tcp,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 IP_ADDRESS:NFS_DIR /mnt/fc6-i386
cd /mnt/fc6-i386/post/control
LOCATION=/mnt/sysimage

mkdir -p $LOCATION/local
chmod 1777 $LOCATION/local

cp -f ./nsswitch.conf $LOCATION/etc/nsswitch.conf

# ============================================ #
# Install the first S98kickstart file. #
# ============================================ #
cp -f ./S98kickstart.fc6 $LOCATION/etc/rc5.d/
chmod a+x $LOCATION/etc/rc5.d/S98kickstart.fc6

%post doubts
 

Hello ,I 'm a newbie Linux and i'm trying to use Xen and Linux together.
I'm facing few problens with %post in kickstart in FC5.

1)Copying of files during post is failing inspite of having Static IP.(resolv.conf must have been ready).

2)Other than /usr/share/doc/anaconda-11.1.1.3/kickstart-docs.txt file,
Could you suggest some documents which could tell me

"how flexible is %post and what all are the thigns we can do with it"

3)Also i'm a little confused about the state of the file system when anaconda is running %post.Could you shed some light on that and what things like /mnt/sysimage corresponds to?


will be eternally grateful :)
Thanks.