RE: Confirming predefined partition layout using kickstart

["Shabazian, Chip" <Chip Shabazian bankofamerica com>]

That's a lot of python for a confirmation box.  Have you looked at using dialog? 

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Peter Åstrand
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:10 AM
To: Discussion of Fedora build system; kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Confirming predefined partition layout using kickstart

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> > Using F8 and Kickstart, we want to predefine everything about 
> > partitions, but also let the user confirm that the disk is going to 
> > be wiped. I thought this could be done with just

> You could go with the route of popping up a dialog in %pre for 
> confirmation if that's all you really want.

Thanks for your help. I've tried a %pre solution now and it seems to work great. Here's what I did:

%pre --interpreter /usr/bin/python
TTY = 3
import os
import sys
import snack
import time
import fcntl
import termios
pid = os.fork()
if pid != 0:
    os.wait()
    os._exit(0)
os.system("chvt %d" % TTY)
fd = os.open("/dev/tty%d" % TTY, os.O_RDWR) os.dup2(fd, 0) os.dup2(fd, 1) os.dup2(fd, 2) sys.stdin = os.fdopen(0, "r") sys.stdout = os.fdopen(1, "w") sys.stderr = os.fdopen(2, "w")
os.setsid()
fcntl.ioctl(fd, termios.TIOCSCTTY, 1)
screen = snack.SnackScreen()
if "reboot" == snack.ButtonChoiceWindow(screen, "WARNING", 
    "WARNING! All data on your hard disk will be DELETED!",
    buttons=["reboot", "continue"]):
    os.system("reboot")
    while 1: time.sleep(10)
screen.finish()
os.system("chvt %d" % 1)
%end


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