Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 21448
%post --nochroot not well documented
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:59 EDT
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 [mailto:stephen@bigfish.com] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 2:00 AM To: Matt_Domsch@exchange.dell.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
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