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

[Craig Huff]

On Jan 27, 2008 6:34 PM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 11:36 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> >
> > Try diverting the output with
> >
> > exec > /tmp/mylog.log 2>&1
> >
> > right after the %post entry.
> >
>
> For the long version, see my post on the kickstart mailing list at xxx.

Sorry forgot to go back and replace the placeholder with the address.
It should have been:
                 https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/

>
> 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.
>