Bug 21448

Summary:	%post --nochroot not well documented
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Matt Domsch <matt_domsch>
Component:	rhl-rg	Assignee:	Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox>
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Description Matt Domsch 2000-11-28 20:33:53 UTC

The kickstart documentation that covers the --nochroot option to %post 
never provides an example of where to put that flag.  This has caused some 
customer concern.  Please add an example of how the --nochroot and --
interpreter options are used.

From:	Stephen Bolinger [stephen]
Sent:	Thursday, November 23, 2000 2:00 AM
To:	Matt_Domsch.com
Subject:	Thanks for your input!

Matt,
For the last three days, I've been attempting to configure a RedHat 
Kickstart installation for many servers.
I thought the "-nochroot" option was what was hindering my progress, but I 
could find neither an example using it, nor any specific documentation 
(including How-to's, walk throughs, etc...) detailing the option's 
placement.
Tonight, I found your response to someone's question regarding the 
placement of the "-nochroot" option in the ks.cfg file.  This made all the 
difference, now it all works.  I just wanted to thank you and let you know 
that your post helped more than the person who asked.  Thanks!
Sincerely,
Stephen Bolinger

Comment 1 Tammy Fox 2001-02-02 23:24:02 UTC

Thanks for this suggestion. I added the following examples:

%post --interpreter /usr/bin/perl

# replace /etc/HOSTNAME
open(HN, ">HOSTNAME");
print HN "1.2.3.4 an.ip.address\n";

%post --nochroot
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/sysimage/etc/resolv.conf