<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks! I didn't realize you could programmatically change vt's in the anaconda image. Matt Kyle Powell wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4A255F54.3000203@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matt Rose wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">How would you write a pre script that queried the user? Kickstart just runs pre scripts, and doesn't allow interaction, as far as I know. Matt </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You can use chvt (and possibly exec with redirection) to switch to another virtual termnial (usually VT3) in the %pre script, ask a user for input, then switch back to VT1 (or 6 if you didn't specify a text based kickstart) and let the kickstart continue. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2003-September/msg00053.html">http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2003-September/msg00053.html</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2004-November/msg00033.html">http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2004-November/msg00033.html</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2007-September/msg00015.html">http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2007-September/msg00015.html</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2008-November/msg00062.html">http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2008-November/msg00062.html</a> - -- Kyle Powell | Red Hat | Senior Consultant, RHCE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iD8DBQFKJV9U7pTtanQdBU4RAs+gAKCLHSWB5Bwu6H/yqxuI69r/s+iuowCfWgSn 4OSf8mwMuGuMse9QFlXsWNY= =1nx1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>