CentOS - Mar 2011 - Cannot %include in CentOS 5.5 kickstart

I've previously used includes in CentOS 4.4 and they worked fine.

But in CentOS 5.5, trying to specify a driver disk via an include
does not work.

If I instead specify it directly, it loads fine.

When it fails (because it can't see the disk drive - needs the
driver disk to see the hard disk), in Console 2 I can see that
/tmp/drvdisk exists and has the line I wrote to it.  I see
nothing that looks wrong in any log or kickstart file/fragment in
/tmp.

Any ideas? Here's my complete kickstart to show/test this:


# Minimal Kickstart test for CentOS 5.5 to show %include problem

url --url=http://10.0.4.157/cblr/links/CentOS5.5-i386
text
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us

timezone --utc America/New_York
install
bootloader --location=mbr
clearpart --all --initlabel
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
firewall --disabled
selinux --disabled

rootpw --iscrypted \$1\$x6z.qvwE\$7Zg9g1rCEgvOBoA7Oo/HF1
zerombr
authconfig  --useshadow  --enablemd5

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --asprimary
part / --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --asprimary
part /var --fstype ext3 --size 10000
part swap --recommended


# This does not work
%include /tmp/drvdisk

# This works
#driverdisk
--source=nfs:10.0.4.157:/srv/cobbler/RHEL5.5_x86_402_409_410_DD.img


%packages
@base
@core

%pre --erroronfail

echo "driverdisk
--source=nfs:10.0.4.157:/srv/cobbler/RHEL5.5_x86_402_409_410_DD.img" >
/tmp/drvdisk

# (end of kickstart file)

On 03/10/2011 08:14 AM, whitivery wrote:
> # This does not work
> %include /tmp/drvdisk
>
> # This works
> #driverdisk
> --source=nfs:10.0.4.157:/srv/cobbler/RHEL5.5_x86_402_409_410_DD.img
>
>
> %packages
> @base
> @core
>
> %pre --erroronfail
>
> echo "driverdisk
>
--source=nfs:10.0.4.157:/srv/cobbler/RHEL5.5_x86_402_409_410_DD.img">
> /tmp/drvdisk
Although lacking a good caffeine fix the only difference I notice with 
some examples is that they do this:

%include /tmp/drvdisk.sh
.
.
.
%pre
echo "driverdisk --source=nfs:10.1.2.3:/foo/image.img" >
/tmp/drvdisk.sh

Notice the usage of ".sh" in the drvdisk.sh filename?

Regards,
Patrick

From: whitivery <co55-sy1t at dea.spamcon.org>
> I've previously used includes in CentOS 4.4 and they worked fine.
> But in  CentOS 5.5, trying to specify a driver disk via an include
> does not  work.
Dunno what is going on for you, but this works for me:
  ...
  %include /tmp/ks.net
  ...
  %pre --interpreter /usr/bin/bash
  ...
  chvt 3
  exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3
  /tmp/ks/ks_pre.sh | tee /tmp/ks_pre.log 2>&1
  chvt 1
  exec < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1

With the ks_pre.sh:
  ...
  cp -av xxx/ks.net /tmp/
  ...

JD