Re: %post question

[Frederik Bijlsma <frederik killesberg org>]

Steve,

did you examine the server logs?
is there an error message?

regards from Magdeburg,
Frederik

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:53:07AM -0400, Steven Garrett wrote:
> Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.  I guess my question is more when I try to
> mount the file system, all it does is hang.  I've disabled the firewall
> within kickstart,so that *shouldn't* be a problem.  I wouldn't think I'd
> have to start mountd, portmapper and the like for this would I since I'm
> doing my install via nfs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Rowlands [mailto:phr doc ic ac uk]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 7:46 PM
> To: 'kickstart-list redhat com'
> Subject: Re: %post question
> 
> 
> On Thu, 22 May 2003, Steven Garrett wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to get a shell script to run from a nfs server during the %post
> >portion of the kickstart.  I've looked at the documentation on redhat.com
> >and tried what it said, but didn't work.
> >
> >in my %post section is
> >%post --nochroot
> >mkdir /mnt/temp
> >mount 172.16.0.100:/d1/redhat/common /mnt/temp
> >read -s -w --/mnt/temp/shell.sh
> 
> I'm not sure what that "read -s -w --" is trying to do. Try writing:
> 
> /mnt/temp/shell.sh
> 
> Remember that all paths to files on the newly installed system will have
> to be prefixed with /mnt/sysimage if you use --nochroot.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Phil
> 
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