John Oliver wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:45:52AM -0700, Brad Beyenhof wrote: >> On 5/5/08, John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:35:38AM -0700, Michael J McCafferty wrote: >>> > John, >>> > I once tried to do all kinds of neat stuff with kickstart. I gave >>> up. I >>> > never got the %post scripts to work at all, except the most very basic >>> > commands. It was probably me, but I gave up on the automation I wanted >>> > to put in %post and wrote a bash script and included in the procedure >>> > docs to run the bash script manually. :o( >>> >>> Well, that's a bummer :-( >> IIRC, Tracy & Mark did a presentation on kickstart & automated >> installation at a meeting sometime last year (in fact, that was my >> first time at a KPLUG meeting). I seem to recall that they had >> mentioned using %post directives and getting them to work... > > I have all sorts of stuff working in %post I just don't know how, in > %post, I could copy files off of the CD/DVD... I don't know how the > optical disc or the filesystem being installed are mounted. >
I haven't done this myself, but could you not open a shell in the post section and use that to poke around and find answers to your questions. Following the chvt idea in tracy's reply, maybe a chvt followed by bash (or ??) would work. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
