RE: RHEL5 kickstart needs to mount cdrom in postinst

["Shabazian, Chip" <Chip Shabazian bankofamerica com>]

Title: RHEL5 kickstart needs to mount cdrom in postinst

put:

sleep 99999999

 

in your %post before you get to that part of your kickstart.  Kickstart the box, open a terminal (Alt-F2), chroot to the build environment, and try to manually run your commands.  Once you get it figured out, simply put those commands back into the kickstart.

 

Chip

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From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Martin Steinmann
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:11 AM
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: RHEL5 kickstart needs to mount cdrom in postinst

On RHEL4 and FC5 we have the following code in the post install section of the ks.cfg file. It mounts the CD the system just installed from and copies the CD's content to a recovery partition on HD. In order to be able to mount the cdrom, we had to run start_udev.

On RHEL5 this no longer seems to work. The ks.cfg post install section executes, but the /recovery/linux directory remains empty. It looks like as if it was not able to mount the cdrom.

Does anyone have an idea what could cause this different behavior?

#...Make copy of installation CD to the "/recovery" partition
/sbin/start_udev
mkdir /recovery/linux
mkdir /tempdir
mount /dev/cdrom /tempdir
cp -a /tempdir/* /recovery/linux
cp -a /tempdir/.discinfo /recovery/linux
umount /tempdir
rm -rf /tempdir

--martin