Im not going to explain about kickstart, i supposed you know, that one of the features of this program is to run a postscript after installation.So after install packages you can run a set of commands to make a "first-configuration" of your system.
Usually people writes all the "postscript-commands" in the kickstart file like we would do in other scripts. But i want to run this commands from a different script apart of kickstart file.
So i have a file in "ris-server" called postscript.sh and i want to run it in kickstart-client machine just before installation. How to do it ?!?
I have tried mounting the directory of "postscript.sh" and copy to client-machine and run it ; i have tried copying directly, and several ways, it never works....
I'm using a script in %pre that prompts for IP, hostname, etc. The answers are dumped out as variables and used to set up the config files in %post All works well.
Now, it's being used to install the OS on an HP Proliant that's in a remote datacenter via iLO, and it takes about an hour to... (2 Replies)
RHEL 5.4
I'm trying to use %include statements in my kickstarts, and am running into some problems.
In %pre, I can %include /mnt/source/isolinux/setup-questions and that works just fine. One of the things it does is echo out several variables to /tmp/vars In %post --nochroot, I copy... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am runnning Infoprint Manager 4.3 on AIX 5.2 . There is no problem printing AFP files, but I have hit a snag trying to use "AIX DSS" or "Other Printer" actual destinations to send unconverted Postscript files to native Postscript printers.
The files are big, and they print correctly,... (0 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I have problem while configuring kickstart server .i have performed some steps but still i am unable to configure kickstart server on CentOS 5.4.
I have performed following steps:-
yum install system-config-kickstart
mkdir /kickstart
mount /dev/cdrom /media
cd /media... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am pretty new to using Linux and learning as I go, my setup is extremly simple, I have 1 virtual machine running on my laptop running (ubuntu 10.04), I've created a kickstart (Red Hat) file with the ksconfig.
So I know have a config file for my Redhat.iso and my VM machine.
What's... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am trying to install RHEL5.3 using kickstart method. Copied the rhel.iso file from DVD to http location. ks.cfg and rhel.iso files are available on a WINDOWS2008 Server (via HTTP). In ks.cfg file, provided the media path as url --url=http://xx.xx.xx.xx/RHEL53. System understanding the... (3 Replies)
I just finished setting up a Kickstart Server for our RHEL 5 installs. It's configured to use the PXE boot and NFS for the installation. Everything works fine when I just build one machine at a time. The installation works from begining to end.
But when I try the install three machines at... (5 Replies)
Folks,
Im hoping you guys can help me. Here is a description of what I have going on.
Fresh VM, trying to run a Kickstart Install on it for RHEL5. I am looking to access the kickstart file through nfs.
I boot from a local ISO image and everything goes fine, I get to the boot prompt and enter... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I was able to set up a kickstart to install Red Hat Enterprise thought a network.
I'm trying to enable a NTP time server in the post section of the kickstart file and also enable/disable a few services using chkconfig.
I can't seam to get it to work, can anyone help ? I don't beleive i... (2 Replies)
Would anyone know how to set a NIC to 100 Full Duplex from within a kickstart bootdisk? I just added the Tigon3 module to the bootnet.img - it loads fine but auto-negotiates to 100 Half Duplex for some reason - are there any parameters I can pass on the boot disk to force it 100 Full
appreciate... (2 Replies)
show-installed(1)show-installed(1)NAME
show-installed - show installed RPM packages and descriptions
SYNOPSIS
show-installed [options]
DESCRIPTION
show-installed gives a compact description of the packages installed (or given) making use of the comps groups found in the repositories.
OPTIONS -h, --help
show this help message and exit
-f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
yum, kickstart or human; yum gives the result as a yum command line; kickstart the content of a %packages section; "human" readable
is default.
-i INPUT, --input=INPUT
File to read the package list from instead of using the rpmdb. - for stdin. The file must contain package names only separated by
white space (including newlines). rpm -qa --qf='%{name}
' produces proper output.
-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
File to write the result to. Stdout is used if option is omitted.
-q, --quiet
Do not show warnings.
-e, --no-excludes
Only show groups that are installed completely. Do not use exclude lines.
--global-excludes
Print exclude lines at the end and not after the groups requiring them.
--global-addons
Print package names at the end and not after the groups offering them as addon.
--addons-by-group
Also show groups not selected to sort packages contained by them. Those groups are commented out with a "# " at the begin of the
line.
-m, --allow-mandatories
Check if just installing the mandatory packages gives better results. Uses "." to mark those groups.
-a, --allow-all
Check if installing all packages in the groups gives better results. Uses "*" to mark those groups.
--ignore-missing
Ignore packages missing in the repos.
--ignore-missing-excludes
Do not produce exclude lines for packages not in the repository.
Florian Festi 21 October 2010 show-installed(1)