[wplug] kickstart config redhat 8.0

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Tue Mar 4 22:50:48 EST 2003


On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Vanco, Donald wrote:

> James O'Kane wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, John Harrold wrote:
> > 
> >> Sometime in March James O'Kane assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> >> 
> >>> You could put something in %post that takes the current IP and gets
> >>> the hostname from that and modifies /etc/sysconfig/network
> >> 
> >> yeah i thought about that, but i was hoping there was something
> >> better :). 
> >> 
> >> do you know of where i can get the output of the post install script
> >> in case something fails and i can then debug it.
> > 
> > 
> > It's been a while, but if I remember right, if you dont' specify
> > 'reboot' in the ks.cfg, it will wait at the end for you to hit enter.
> > Switch to <alt><F3> or <F4> I think that's where the output goes.
> 	
> 	While certainly an option, "interacting" with a kickstart install
> pretty much defeats the purpose.

He specifically asked where the output when so he could debug it. That is 
a different case than the normal mass install phase. If he sets 'reboot' 
then the output would be gone.

-james





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