Attention Gurus - I am scripting the installation and configuration of our ESX environment at our DR site and have been stuck on this one simple problem - I need to copy files from the install media to the server in the %post section and can't seem to make it happen.. there is no network up - or at least any servers up on the wire - at the time I will be building the ESX environment so I need to be able to leverage the %post section to copy files to the /mnt/sysimage directory structure.. I have tried so many ways to make this happen but have been unsuccessful and can't find any solid documentation on this. Yes, I am using the '--nochroot' parameter after the %post....
I have copied the ks.cfg file to both floppy and CDROM and have installed ESX using both 'esx ks=floppy' and 'esx ks=cdrom:\KS.cfg ksdevice=cdrom' and both work fine - however - when I add files to the media, whether to the floppy or the CD, I can't get them copied into the /mnt/sysimage/tmp directory where they can be executed later during the post config script. Here is what I have tried:
%post --nochroot
cp /script_filename /mnt/sysimage/tmp/script_filename
When the above didn't work I tried this:
%post --nochroot
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/sysimage/tmp
cp /mnt/sysimage/tmp/script_filename /mnt/sysimage/tmp/script_filename
This didn't work either - 
What command do I use during the %post section to represent the floppy or CDROM devices so I can copy the files i need to /mnt/sysimage/tmp???
Thanks in advance!!!!
Gman