I've had a thread going on over at centos.org:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/...forumpost45526

Basically I've fixed stage2.img for the anaconda bug (or so I hope), but am still unable to copy my files to the new installation from the CD during the kickstart.

I've tried using:

%post
mkdir -p $INSTALL_ROOT/var/mystuff
touch $INSTALL_ROOT/var/mystuff/test
cp -R /mnt/source/me.tar.gz /mnt/sysimage/var/mystuff/
cp me.tar.gz $INSTALL_ROOT/var/mystuff/
cd $INSTALL_ROOT/var/mystuff
tar xzvf /mnt/source/me.tar.gz

(yes, I tried copying the file twice - using different paths while basically shooting in the dark). In tty3 during the kickstart it says it cannot find me.tar.gz 3 times (two for cp, and 1 for tar). I end up with a /var/mystuff directory and a /var/mystuff/test file in the final system but I cannot figure out how to get my file there (me.tar.gz).

If I use %post --nochroot then it can find the me.tar.gz file (and even unpacks it) but the files are not present in the final system (guess it's uncompressing them in the scratch).

Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance.

For those that are interested, I solved the problem and will post the solution in a little bit. I'm waiting on the stage2.img file to upload to my webserver before I post the instructions and a link to the fixed file. I'll do that later today.

Okay, my kid's asleep so I have some time to post this:

Here's the link for the patched stage2.img file:
http://v2gnu.com/filemgmt/singlefile.php?lid=26

In my kickstart, here's what I have that works (it creates a dir called /var/mystuff and then untar/gzip's the archive file "me.tar.gz" from the installation CD to this directory):

%post --nochroot

mkdir /mnt/sysimage/var/mystuff
cd /mnt/sysimage/var/mystuff
tar xzvf /mnt/source/me.tar.gz


Easy enough once anaconda is patched. Enjoy!