copy files from CD to hard-drive

[Florin Andrei]

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 08:54 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 03:00, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > I created a custom DVD installer, that also has a kickstart file. On the
> > custom DVD i also put some files that i want to copy to the installed
> > system after kickstart finishes up its job.
> > 
> > The problem is, i can't seem to find a way to do that.
> 
> %post --nochroot
> 
> copy files from /mnt/cdrom/foo to /mnt/sysimage/foo
> 
> %post
> 
> run all your postinstall routines

Hm, even when placing the non-chrooted %post before the chrooted one i
still get error 256.

The problem seems to be that, at %post time, the installer CD/DVD is
already unmounted AND the directory /mnt/source has disappeared.
The solution was to do this:

%post --nochroot
mkdir -p /mnt/source
mount -o ro /tmp/cdrom /mnt/source
cp -a /mnt/source/foo /mnt/sysimage/bar
umount /tmp/cdrom

%post
blah

All this (mount/umount, mkdir) should be mentioned in the kickstart
HOWTO, it's not at all intuitive.

-- 
Florin Andrei

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