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

[Craig Huff]

On Jan 25, 2008 11:36 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
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> Try diverting the output with
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> exec > /tmp/mylog.log 2>&1
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> right after the %post entry.
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For the long version, see my post on the kickstart mailing list at xxx.

In short, I had a problem with embedded carriage returns that the
%post script interpreter couldn't handle so my attempts to use exec to
redirect output to a file weren't working and neither were the other
commands in the file.  Once I got that working, I found that despite
what the CentOS documentation led me to believe, CD based installs
don't have working network connections, at least for DHCP-based
networking, even when the networking controls are specified.  I had to
invoke "/etc/init.d/network start" in my %post script before I could
run yum to install packages from ATrpms (especially the
nvidia-graphics* packages).

Hope this helps someone else spend less time scratching their head and
more time making progress.

Craig.