[CentOS] post install freezes

Fri Oct 16 06:48:16 UTC 2009
Christoph Maser <cmr at financial.com>

Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 19:37 +0200 schrieb David Mehler:
> Hello,
> I'm doing an unattended CentOS 5.3 install in a virtual machine
> vmware. I'm redirecting output to a serial console because production
> boxes won't have monitors. I'm getting to the point of doing the post
> installation then the box freezes. The only command i have in %post is
> yum -y update.
> I'm not getting no output. Suggestions appreciated.
> In the commands section reboot is explicitly called so that at the end
> of the install the vm will reboot.
> Thanks.
> Dave.


You had that one in your other post already. Just don't do it use the
repo keyword in kickstart instead.




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