Kickstart-list Digest, Vol 35, Issue 23

[Steve Robson]

kickstart-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> Subject: Mounting NFS during Kickstart as RW
> From: gurudatta <gurudatta at sonoasystems.com>
<snip>
> %post
<snip>
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Install additional rpms (not part of the standard distro)
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> echo "INSTALLING ADDITIONAL BASE OS RPMS..."
> /bin/rpm -Uvh \
> /mnt/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm      
> /mnt/libf2c-3.4.4-2.fc3.x86_64.rpm
> /mnt/cpp-3.4.4-2.fc3.x86_64.rpm
<snip>

You don't say how it fails; what the error is, but I can see that 
syntactically you are missing line-continuation characters.  You need a 
backslash on the end of each line, like this:

echo "INSTALLING ADDITIONAL BASE OS RPMS..."
/bin/rpm -Uvh \
/mnt/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm \
/mnt/libf2c-3.4.4-2.fc3.x86_64.rpm \
/mnt/cpp-3.4.4-2.fc3.x86_64.rpm \

and so on, on every line EXCEPT THE LAST.  What this does is escape (or 
mask) the carriage return, so that you have a list of rpms for the rpm 
command to process.

What you had before was effectively a command to install one rpm, 
followed by "/mnt/libf2c-3.4.4-2.fc3.x86_64.rpm" executed as a command, 
which is nonsense.

HTH,

-- 
   Regards,
   Steve

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