Re: trying to create dirs in kickstart

Chris Rouch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.kickstart.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16 January 2011 13:08,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
> Have you tried using the IP address of your  nas.summitnjhome.com device? In my experience the IP address will always work.

I have this in my %post

 mkdir -p /mnt/source
 /bin/mount -o nolock -t nfs 192.168.6.7:/data/distros/f14/cdrom /mnt/source


This also works for f13. I think i tried without the "-o nolock"
option on f13 and it failed.

Regards,

Chris


>
> James
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bluethundr <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:49:43
> To: <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Discussion list about Kickstart <[email protected]>
> Subject: trying to create dirs in kickstart
>
> hello kickstart!
>
>  I am attempting to creating some mount points on the machines I
> kickstart and then mount those volumes using the mount command in teh
> %post section of my ks file. But that part of the kickstart isn't
> working.
>
> # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.
>
> install
> # Use NFS installation media
> nfs --server=192.168.1.250 --dir=/mnt/DVD64-1
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --nameserver
> 192.168.1.44,71.250.0.12,4.2.2.2 --hostname newhost
> rootpw --iscrypted $1$ptZMQiFw$hYQMhYk0XdOexGpc.bVWH/
> firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp,80:tcp
> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
> selinux --disabled
> timezone America/New_York
> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0"
> # The following is the partition information you requested
> # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
> # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
> # not guaranteed to work
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=xvda
> part pv.2 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=xvda
> volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00
> --size=272 --grow --maxsize=544
> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow
>
> %post
> # Create mount dir
> mkdir /mnt/config
>
> # Mount config dir
> mount nas.summitnjhome.com:/mnt/nas/config /mnt/config
>
> # transfer files
> rsync -avzp /mnt/config/etc/* /etc/
>
> # Add repos
> # EPEL
> rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
>
> # Remi
> rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
>
> # DAG
> rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
>
> # CentALT
> rpm -Uvh http://centos.alt.ru/pub/repository/centos/5/i386/centalt-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
>
> # unmount config dir
> umount /mnt/config
>
> # remove config dir
> rm -rf /mnt/config
>
> #update the system
> yum repolist
> yum update -y
> yum upgrade -y
>
>
> %packages
> @base
> @cluster-storage
> @clustering
> @core
> @editors
> @legacy-network-server
> @mail-server
> @network-server
> @news-server
> @server-cfg
> @text-internet
> @web-server
> @smb-server
> koan
> puppet
> keyutils
> trousers
> fipscheck
> device-mapper-multipath
> kmod-gnbd-xen
> kmod-gfs-xen
>
> Could someone offer some advice?
>
> thanks!
>
> --
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>
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