<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Kyle Powell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kpowell@redhat.com">kpowell@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div><div class="im">Matt Rose wrote:<br>
> How would you write a pre script that queried the user?  Kickstart just<br>
> runs pre scripts, and doesn't allow interaction, as far as I know.<br>
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> Matt<br>
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</div>You can use chvt (and possibly exec with redirection) to switch to another<br>
virtual termnial (usually VT3) in the %pre script, ask a user for input, then<br>
switch back to VT1 (or 6 if you didn't specify a text based kickstart) and let<br>
the kickstart continue.<br>
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<a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2003-September/msg00053.html" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2003-September/msg00053.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2004-November/msg00033.html" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2004-November/msg00033.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2007-September/msg00015.html" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2007-September/msg00015.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2008-November/msg00062.html" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2008-November/msg00062.html</a><br>
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Kyle Powell | Red Hat | Senior Consultant, RHCE<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div>Thanks.  Useful and right on the point.  I even tried to use a google query with the<br>basic terms from the provide URL's but if they were there, they were lost in the noise.<br><br>Thanks again.  Now to go and implement.<br>