[ATrpms-users] How can I install CentOS and get the nvidia-graphics driver from ATrpms during the install?

[Craig Huff]

On Jan 10, 2008 12:27 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
> > It is very tricky -- might I say nigh impossible -- to work with the system
> > without a visible cursor to get to the point of installing the nvidia-graphics
> > driver and kmdl post-install.
> >
> > Is there a way to get it done during the installation?
> >
>
> I do this with kickstart files and by adding all packages I'd like
> installed in the postinstall script part.

Okay... I have been twiddling with a postinstall script and it seems
to work except for the step that invokes yum to install the
nvidia-graphics packages and I can't seem to get a log file produced
somewhere that I can read to find out what went wrong.  Can someone
tell me what's wrong with the following setup?

First off, I have this:

repo --name=atrpms --baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-i386/atrpms/stable

in the command section and I have this as my %post section:

%post --log=/root/anaconda_post.log
set -x
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
cd /etc/X11
cp -p xorg.conf xorg.conf.baseline
patch -up1 < /mnt/patch.xorg.conf
cp -p /mnt/atrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d
yum -y install nvidia-graphics169.07 nvidia-graphics169.07-kmdl-`uname
-r` nvidia-graphics169.07-libs yum-plugin-kmdl yum-fastestmirror
yum-priorities yum-repolist yumex
%end

while /mnt/atrpms.repo contains (ignoring comments):

[atrpms]
name=ATrpms for RHEL and CentOS $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
[atrpms-testing]
name=ATrpms Replacements/Additions for RHEL and CentOS $releasever -
$basearch rpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/testing
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms

When I boot up after the install completes, I can see that all the
file manipulations in the %post script have been performed, but there
is no anaconda_post.log file and the yum command apparently failed as
none of the packages got installed.

Any help fixing either problem would be appreciated, because right now
I'm stumped.

Craig.