Newbie problem with kickstart post section

[Philip Prindeville]

Have a look at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192332#c1

-Philip


Neerad Niksun wrote:

>Hi, Alain,
>
>Thanks for pointing all this out.
>
>Question. If some commands are required to be run in chroot where as others
>in nochroot (ie copying the files from install media etc) . What in your
>openion should be done.
>
>You r right , rpm install might not work because of the restrictd env.  I
>will try to figure out some of the ugly stuff for this too.
>
>So , is there any possiblity other than including in comps.xml and hdlist ,
>that the rpm can be installed in post section?
>
>Neerad
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Neerad Niksun" <neeradm at in.niksun.com>
>To: <art at caa.is>; "Discussion list about Kickstart"
><kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:25 AM
>Subject: Re: Newbie problem with kickstart post section
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>>Hey! , nothing seems wrong with your env ;)
>>
>>This is the way is it suppose to wrok.
>>
>>This is how you should understand.
>>
>>All the partitioning/installation and stuff you did while installation
>>    
>>
>went
>  
>
>>into /mnt/sysimage. This does not come into effect until you reboot the
>>system.
>>
>>mean while you have a ristricted env to do some common stuff while
>>/mnt/sysimage just act as a normal directory.
>>
>>Okay so if you wanna make changes to something , those should go into
>>/mnt/sysimage ... respective files.
>>
>>Let me give you an example.
>>
>>I needed to create a user in my post section. So this is what i did.
>>
>>cp -f /mnt/sysimage/etc/passwd /etc/passwd
>>cp -f /mnt/sysimage/etc/group /etc/group
>>cp -f /mnt/sysimage/etc/shadow /etc/shadow
>>/mnt/sysimage/usr/sbin/useradd <user_name>  -d <usr_home_path> -s
>>/bin/bash -g <gorup> -G <group_member>, <group_member>.....
>>cp -f /etc/passwd /mnt/sysimage/etc/passwd
>>cp -f /etc/group /mnt/sysimage/etc/group
>>cp -f /etc/shadow /mnt/sysimage/etc/shadow
>>
>>Also if you want to install packages there are two ways.
>>
>>1) Include it in comps.xml and hdlist
>>2) In post section as described under.
>>
>>mkdir /tmp/cd
>>mount /tmp/cdrom /tmp/cd
>>
>>/mnt/sysimage/bin/rpm -i /tmp/cdrom /tmp/cd/<your_package_name>
>>
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>Neerad Mittal
>>Lead Software Engineer
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Arnar Þórarinsson" <art at caa.is>
>>To: <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>>Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 3:46 AM
>>Subject: Newbie problem with kickstart post section
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi
>>>I'm having a hard time getting the %post section to do what I want to
>>>do, like turning services off and installing RPMs and fonts.
>>>
>>>chkconfig is not found unless I use /mnt/sysimage/sbin/chkconfig and
>>>then it can't find /etc/init.d
>>>
>>>rpm -qa gives a blank output, like no rpms are installed.
>>>
>>>I'm guessing that theres something wrong with my environment ;)
>>>
>>>post section runs as :
>>>%post --nochroot --interpreter=/bin/bash --log=/mnt/sysimage/root/post-
>>>install.log
>>>
>>>/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 telnet off
>>>/mnt/sysimage/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 telnet off
>>>
>>>
>>>System in RHEL WS 4.3
>>>
>>>what am I doing wrong here ????
>>>
>>>Regards.
>>>
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