[TriLUG] Kickstart eject CD when done

[David McDowell]

In my discoveries, trials, tribulations and results of all the
kickstart learning I did last month, I found that there is NO simple
way, if ANY way to eject the CDROM in the %post area of the kickstart.
 I found some crazy wacky things through a few random google hits, but
they were so wacky and so far beyond me, I didn't even bother.  The
concensus I seem to be getting from folks I consider quite
knowledgable is, it can't be done.  Now, I'd say that's a limitation I
didn't want to accept, but, after you get past a very early stage in
the installation, say, after your NFS install has begun, you can go
ahead and eject the disc then, which basically means, just deal...
*shrugs*  :)  I wish it were otherwise!!

good luck, and if you do find a simple solution, please let me know!  :)

laters,
David McD



On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:33:37 -0500, Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:03:25 -0500, David W. Aquilina
> <david at starkindler.us> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:09:33AM -0500, Matt Frye wrote:
> > > I put /mnt/sysimage/usr/bin/eject in %post
> >
> > "%post" is executed within a chroot to /mnt/sysimage. If you want to operate outside of that chroot, you must include a "%post --nochroot" section in the kickstart file as well.
> 
> Tried that.  Doesn't help.  That's not the really important error anyhow.
> 
> I get...
> 
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'
> 
> when I have anything other than "skipx" on the X config line.  Anyone
> seen this before.  Not much on google.
> 
> MPF
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