[SOLVED] Post Installation in Kickstart File

vikas027 · 03-22-2011, 02:59 PM

Hi All,

I have created a customized RHEL 5.4 DVD and placed a Kickstart file in it.
It is running fine except the post installation steps.

I need to copy some files from DVD to the newly built server. For this I have modified my Kickstart file as below, but no luck

Here, EXTRAS is the folder which I need to copy on the server after installing from the DVD.

Code:

%post --nochroot
mkdir /mnt/sysimage/tempdir
mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom
mount -t iso9660 /tmp/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cp -ar /mnt/cdrom/EXTRAS /mnt/sysimage/tempdir
umount /mnt/cdrom

Any ideas.

EDIT: I just found a way to log my post section here. Let me try this and post results here.

acid_kewpie · 03-22-2011, 03:55 PM

in %post the system is chrooted into the sysimage, so you need to access files as they will be after reboot, so just drop all the "/mnt/sysimage" bits.

vikas027 · 03-23-2011, 02:48 PM

Hi Acid,

Thanks for your time and reply. I am marking this thread as solved.

This helped me out.

Code:

%post --nochroot
#!/bin/bash
# Copying EXTRAS folder from CDROM to /root/EXTRAS
mkdir /tmp/c
mount -t iso9660 /tmp/cdrom /tmp/c
mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/root/EXTRAS
cp -arv /tmp/c/EXTRAS/* /mnt/sysimage/root/EXTRAS
umount /tmp/c
%end

However, I was unable to create log file for this section of kickstart. I tried these:-

Code:

%post --nochroot --log=/root/post-chroot.log
#!/bin/bash
# Copying EXTRAS folder from CDROM to /root/EXTRAS
mkdir /tmp/c
mount -t iso9660 /tmp/cdrom /tmp/c
mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/root/EXTRAS
cp -arv /tmp/c/EXTRAS/* /mnt/sysimage/root/EXTRAS
umount /tmp/c
%end

and

Code:

%post --nochroot
{
#!/bin/bash
# Copying EXTRAS folder from CDROM to /root/EXTRAS
mkdir /tmp/c
mount -t iso9660 /tmp/cdrom /tmp/c
mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/root/EXTRAS
cp -arv /tmp/c/EXTRAS/* /mnt/sysimage/root/EXTRAS
umount /tmp/c
} > /root/post-chroot.log
%end

acid_kewpie · 03-23-2011, 05:15 PM

Yeah, I've tried that stuff too, got nowhere. just got blank log files at best.