General :: Using Kickstart Post Install To Copy Remote Files
Feb 1, 2010
CentOS 5.3 32bit
I'm having trouble trying to copy files from an nfs mounted remote machine during the the post install with kickstart.
My post install:
%post
mkdir /mnt/foo
mkdir /mnt/foo/downloads
mount 206.xx.xx.xxx:/downloads /mnt/foo/downloads
ln -s /mnt/foo/downloads /downloads
sed -i '$ afoo:/downloads /mnt/foo/downloads nfs exec,dev,suid,rw,bg,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 1 1' /etc/fstab
%end
%post --nochroot
cp -r /downloads/thirdparty/importantFolder /mnt/sysimage/opt
%end
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Feb 23, 2010
I want to design a kickstart file that creates an unattended installation (I've passed that part). After it installs, I want it to automatically read the device's MAC address and change the hostname to match the MAC address with the separators removed. (For example if the MAC address is 01-02-03-04-05-06, the prompt after login should read "root@010203040506")
I know this is entered in the "%post" section of the kickstart file, and I know I'm supposed to use the "cut" and "sed" commands, but I have no idea what I'm doing or how to do it. script so I can copy/paste it into my kickstart file?
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%post
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ftp
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Code:
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Code:
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