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Mats Karlsson mats.o.karlsson at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 06:09:05 UTC 2008


Alt. 1. Invest in an rewritable DVD

Alt. 2. Place the ks.cfg on a http/ftp server under the development phase

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:37 AM, <tony.chamberlain at lemko.com> wrote:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarle Bjørgeengen [mailto:jarle at bjorgeengen.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 01:29 PM
> To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
> Subject: Re: extra packages
>
>
> On Nov 4, 2008, at 6:39 , Kyle Powell wrote:
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> > tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> >> You seem not to be able to do ALT-F2 during the %post part.  And it
> >> went very quickly (I just did sleep 5000 which I hope is about 8
> >> minutes).
> >> It went way quicker than that, but the "Installing bootloader" is
> >> taking
> >> forver.  I wonder whether my sleep statement is taking place there
> >> instead?
> >
> > No, you certainly should be able to switch to VT 2 while the %post
> > script is
> > running. If anaconda seems to be finishing the post script quickly
> > and you have
> > a 'sleep 5000' in your post script, this would indicate the post
> > script is not
> > running completely, at least not far enough to reach the sleep
> > (sleep 5000 would
> > sleep for 5000 seconds, which is nearly an hour and a half).
> >
> >>   %post --nochroot
> >>   mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom
> >>   mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> >>   mkdir /tmp/inst
> >>   cp /mnt/cdrom/addon/*.tz  /tmp/inst/
> >>   cd /tmp/inst
> >>   tar -zxvf preimage.tz
> >>   cd preimage
> >>   ./install
> >>   cd ..
> >>   tar -zxvf nppt.tz
> >>   cd nppt
> >>   ./install
> >>
> >> 1. How do I access the addon directory on the DVD?  I know it is
> >> there
> >>   because on a Linux system I put the DVD in the reader and see it.
> >
> > When installing from CD or DVD, it will already be mounted at /mnt/
> > source. I
> > would recommend you use two post scripts. Copy the files from the CD
> > in a
> > - --nochroot post script, then run the install in a regular
> > (chroot'ed) post script.
> >
> > %post --nochroot
> > mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/tmp/inst
> > cp /mnt/source/addon/* /mnt/sysimage/tmp/inst
> >
> > %post
> > cd /tmp/inst
> > tar -zxvf preimage.tz
> > cd preimage
> > ./install
> > cd ..
> > tar -zxvf nppt.tz
> > cd nppt
> > ./install
> >
>
> Neat . Didn'r know you could have 2 %posts
>
> >> 2. How can I test thet %post without wasting a DVD each time?
> >
> > If you have a second machine you could pull the ks.cfg via http, or
> > if you have
> > a floppy, you could get the kickstart file from the floppy drive.
> > These would
> > allow you to change the kickstart file without burning a new DVD
> > each time. If
> > you absolutely want to pull the kickstart file from the iso each
> > time (instead
> > of just changing the ks= line to point to the cdrom once all your
> > testing is
> > complete) you could kickstart a virtual machine and present the iso
> > file to the
> > VM without actually burning a DVD.
>
> You can also use usb-stick
>
> linux  ks=hd:<partition_where_ks.cfg_is_located>
>
> Just edit isolinux config if you want this to be default.
>
> Once I pre-made a DVD image which wrote host-specific options to a
> temporary file in the %pre section, based on the output of dmidecode
> (machine serial number) , and later included the autogenerated file in
> the main ks.config.
>
> ==========
> I tried many values for "<partition_where_ks.cfg_is_located>" but none
> seemed to work.
>
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