<!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"> you can kick off a %pre in python using the --interpreter flag. I just use the vt5 for feedback, so I just issue os.system("chvt 5") and write to /dev/tty5 directly, but I'm sure you could manipulate sys.stdout, and sys.stderr Matt Glenn Bailey wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:C9A495C51E57F74B8B168E245C0003B20DCB0DFDF4@MIA20725EXC392.apps.tmrk.corp" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Howdy folks, I've been beating my head trying to get this darn thing to work. I can easily grab user input via straight shell in the following example: %pre chvt 3 exec </dev/tty3 >/dev/tty3 2>/dev/tty3 echo -n "Enter the hostname: " read HOSTNAME echo "You entered: $HOSTNAME" But, what I am trying to do is use the python snack library, and I'm having no luck. I couldn't find a pure python solution, so I tried some tricks and came up with the following: %pre chvt 3 exec </dev/tty3 >/dev/tty3 2>/dev/tty3 /usr/bin/python <<EOF import os, sys from snack import * title = "Linux Build" buttons = ['Ok', 'Cancel'] width = 40 help = "None" textItems = "Hello!" text = "Confirm options" screen = SnackScreen() ButtonChoiceWindow(screen, title, textItems, ['Start Build', 'Re-input Items'], width, 0,0,help) screen.finish() EOF Which will display the screen, but it still takes input from tty1. Any ideas to WTH is going on? Looking through the archives I found some pure python examples, but they did nada fer me .. I'd take a solution in shell or python as long as it works ;-) _______________________________________________ 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>