KickStart

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Anyone doing serious kickstart disks?

In the well written KickStart HOWTO it states that you can install RPMs 
you made yourself in the %post section of the kickstart file.

Under Redhat 6.0 kickstart, using cdrom installation the rpm command does not
work. According to this url:

http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/KickStart-HOWTO-6.html

You should be able to do a rpm -i.

Does the HOWTO:

Assume a particular release of Redhat?

Particular installation method (NFS vs CDROM)?

I have 2 major problems.

#1, using CDROM installation it does not look like Ethernet interfaces get
configured, thus rpm -i ftp://host.company.com/rpms/myrpm.rpm does not work
because the Ethernet interfaces are down.

In ALT-F2, an ifconfig -a does eth0 as down.

Just for giggles, I tried an IP, same result.

#2, it looks like the the install2 binary locks the rpm database, so even if I
got get the package, I could not it. 

To test this I put rpm -qa into the %post section and I get cannot get shared
lock on database, which is what your normally get when there is another rpm
process.

Anyone doing these things?

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