Alan McKay wrote: > What am I missing here? Is /bin/bash even available during %pre ? I just started testing CentOS 5.4 yesterday w/kickstart, currently all of my systems are 5.2. Tested this under ESX 4.0 this morning. This is what my %pre looks like now, I consolidated all configs into a single script that is called # Note: there doesn't seem to be any way to log stuff that occurs in %pre as # it occurs outside of the chroot before kickstart loads. %pre export KICKSTART_IP=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed s'/.*http:\/\///'g | sed s'/\/config.*//'g` wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/kickstart-postinstall/bin/kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh -O /tmp/kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh chmod 755 /tmp/kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh /tmp/kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh then the kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh script contains #!/bin/sh export KICKSTART_IP=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed s'/.*http:\/\///'g | sed s'/\/config.*//'g` export KERNEL_VERSION=`uname -r` # No /etc/redhat-release during pre, so guessing based on kernel version echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" && export CURRENT_OS="RHEL4" echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" || export CURRENT_OS="RHEL5" ############################################################################### ## Attempt to auto detect console device ## ############################################################################### grep -q "ttyS0,9600" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS0_9600.cfg -O /tmp/console.config grep -q "ttyS0,57600" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS0_57600.cfg -O /tmp/console.config grep -q "ttyS0,115200" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS0_115200.cfg -O /tmp/console.config grep -q "ttyS1,9600" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS1_9600.cfg -O /tmp/console.config grep -q "ttyS1,57600" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS1_57600.cfg -O /tmp/console.config grep -q "ttyS1,115200" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS1_115200.cfg -O /tmp/console.config # Default to VGA if we can't find a serial console defined [ ! -f "/tmp/console.config" ] && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/vga.cfg -O /tmp/console.config ############################################################################### ## Attempt to auto detect network device ## ############################################################################### [ "$CURRENT_OS" == "RHEL5" ] && grep -q "ksdevice=eth0" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/network/ksdevice_eth0.config -O /tmp/network.config [ "$CURRENT_OS" == "RHEL5" ] && grep -q "ksdevice=eth1" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/network/ksdevice_eth1.config -O /tmp/network.config echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" && grep -q "ksdevice=eth0" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_4/network/ksdevice_eth0.config -O /tmp/network.config echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" && grep -q "ksdevice=eth1" /proc/cmdline && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_4/network/ksdevice_eth1.config -O /tmp/network.config # Default to eth0 if we don't see anything specified [ "$CURRENT_OS" == "RHEL5" ] && [ ! -f "/tmp/network.config" ] && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/network/ksdevice_eth0.config -O /tmp/network.config echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" && [ ! -f "/tmp/network.config" ] && wget http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_4/network/ksdevice_eth0.config -O /tmp/network.config ############################################################################### ## Attempt to auto detect custom swap size ## ############################################################################### grep -qi "swapsize" /proc/cmdline && export SWAPSIZE=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed s'/ /\n/'g | grep swapsize | sed s'/swapsize=//'g` [ -z "$SWAPSIZE" ] && export SWAPSIZE="4096" echo "part swap --size=${SWAPSIZE}" >/tmp/swap.config -- end script -- nate