Human interaction in %PRE text mode with snack Dialog boxes

[Jake Vickers]

Meyers, John J wrote:
> Hi All,
>         The %pre mode seems to conduct I/O with tty3. With primary 
> anaconda user interaction displays on tty1. I need to interact with 
> the user on tty1 during %pre; Using python and snack. Due to using 
> various weird hardware in our environment a graphical install dos not 
> work.
>  The Code below is just an example of what I've tried.
>

Never tried python in the %pre myself, but couldn't a chvt work for you?
ex:
%pre
chvt 3  # changes to TTY3
echo ""
echo "Enter IP address" # or whatever you need to do
read IP
chvt 1 # change back to TTY1

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