Hi,

The kickstart email list archive is a good place to find info about more
complex kickstart usage...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/index.html

This post gives an example is of running %post without chroot and then
chrooting and running a script from the filesystem.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2003-August/msg00038.html

Cheers,
Tom

Perret Yannick wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I'm trying to use the %include command in kickstart
> files and I failed to make it work...
>
> When installing machines (with PXE) our configuration
> system generates the initrd do be use at boot time and
> in particular inserts the kickstart file in it.
> This is used in PXE by using the ks=file:/tmp/ks.cfg
> command (it is better for us than an other NFS access
> to /tftpboot to get that file).
>
> I was trying to add an other script in the initrd (that's
> not difficult) but I failed to use it in the %post, because
> it is chrooted and so the /tmp of the initrd is no more
> visible.
> I cannot use the %post --nochroot because I make some
> treatments that would be too difficult to perform without
> chroot.
>
> I tryed to add this in the %post:
> cat <<EOF >/the/file/in/final/filesystem
> %include /the/file/in/initrd
> EOF
>
> I hoped that the %include would have been performed at kickstart
> evaluation (so before the chroot is done).
> But all I get is a crash of anaconda (compaining about an
> uninitialzed variable in "script = script + n"...
>
> Does someone know the reason of the problem ?
> Does someone know a way to bypass this and perform a
> copy from the initrd filesystem to the final filesystem ?
>
> Thank for any help.
>
> --
> Yannick