Autostep not working?

[Philip Prindeville]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 11:03 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>   
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 10:51 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Is it my imagination, or does "autostep" not work with "text"
>>>> (but only "graphical")?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> autostep has always been graphical only (and I believe documented as
>>> such).  Making it otherwise is somewhere between difficult and
>>> impossible
>>>       
>> Why?  All it does is continue with the supplies values without waiting
>> for the user to enter new values...  that's orthogonal to using a GUI or
>> a simple ASCII interface...
>>     
>
> Because there's no way to tell the underlying toolkit "press this button
> now" with the text-mode interface.
>
> But in the case you're trying to achieve, why do you even need or want
> autostep?  Really... it's handy for debugging that screens "look" right
> (especially in different languages), but for actual automated installs,
> what are you gaining by having steps that take no time pop up and wait
> on the screen?
>
> Jeremy
>   

As opposed to what?  There's "interactive", and there's "autostep", right?

If you're using "text" mode, there's no way to get an unattended install 
that I
can think of...

-Philip