CentOS - Mar 2007 - kickstart: transfer info between %pre and %post

I collect some info with the %pre script. But I really want to execute 
some programs, based on that info, during a chrooted %post.

The problem is, %pre and chrooted %post do not share any part of the 
filesystem. In %pre the hard-drives are not yet formatted, while in a 
chrooted %post the installer's root is not available.
How to transfer info between these two stages?

One idea would be to upload a file to the kickstart fileserver. That's 
ugly in many ways.

Any other idea?

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

On 21/03/07, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>
wrote:
> I collect some info with the %pre script. But I really want to execute
> some programs, based on that info, during a chrooted %post.
>
> The problem is, %pre and chrooted %post do not share any part of the
> filesystem. In %pre the hard-drives are not yet formatted, while in a
> chrooted %post the installer's root is not available.
> How to transfer info between these two stages?
>
> One idea would be to upload a file to the kickstart fileserver. That's
> ugly in many ways.
Ramdisk that remains mounted between stages?

nb: I have no idea if this would work, just a suggestion :)

Will.