> Try this in your kickstart file: > > %post --interpreter /bin/bash > yes | yum update > > Without the '--interpreter /bin/bash' the code will (I think) be > interpreted as python. Also, when you run 'yum update' you are prompted > to confirm that you want to go ahead and update the listed packages, and > so you need to pipe 'yes' through it. thanks for the response - with regard piping yes through to yum it seems you can just specify yum -y update and this will anser yes for you. the interpreter bit is now causing the end of the kickstart to bomb out with the error of '/usr/local/bin/bash can not be run' as this is where bash is it seems. This is the %post bit of the kickstart %post --nochroot --interpreter /usr/local/bin/bash /usr/bin/yum -y update any ideas??