adding commands to installer image

[Larry Brigman]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen<kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
> Sounds like two problems born out of legacy rather then absolute requirements based on current technology;
>
> 1) use kickstart for this. UTC is UTC, and packes built -and thus deployed- cannot have been built in the future. Have ntpd control the hwclock (with the hwclock set to UTC). Use ntpd to update the system clock (or actually adjust the number of ticks per second and hence scale up/down the duration of a second from the perspective of the OS or applications which usually do not handle warping very well)

We do use ntp on our systems.  It is the initial install of a new
(never installed) box from the
vendor where the hwclock was originally set to localtime not UTC and
not our localtime either.
We move the hwclock to UTC during the initial boot after install when
we hit the ntp server.
The CD installer image does not have ntp (or ntpdate) available.

>
> 2)
>
> Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a need to run some standard commands during the kickstart
>>install some during
>>the pre script some after.
>>These programs are not in the current installer images.  Is there a
>>way to add custom
>>programs or applications to the installer image?
>>
>>Reasoning behind the request (so maybe someone can come up with a
>>better method).
>>
>>1) The systems that are being installed arrive with the time set to
>>some local time that is unknown but we want it set
>>   to UTC.  This needs to be set prior to installing any RPM packages
>>as some of the post install creates files that
>>   are timestamped in the future.
>>2) We have a vendor supplied tool that runs under Linux that allows us
>>to set the BIOS and ipmi settings from a script.
>>    We use bootloader settings that if the BIOS settings don't match
>>it hangs in the Grub loader.
>>
>>Both of the above happen enough that with our manufacturing process I
>>would like to get these automated.
>>
>>
>>Thanks for your time.
>>
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