anaconda screens

[Luis Correia]

Hi!

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:41, Pablo Iranzo Gómez
<Pablo.Iranzo at redhat.com> wrote:
>        Of course, on vt3 you can 'simulate' anaconda screens ;).
>
>        If you really need them on vt1 will need to modify anaconda, but IMHO
> that would make it harder to debug and mantain in the future.
>

Well, the user wouldn't see anything if it isn't on vt1...

I can try to show some stuff on vt3, with the 'emulated anaconda
screens' but that is really just for debug, I couldn't go with that
for a production env...

Luis


>        Regards
>        Pablo
>
> El jue, 07-08-2008 a las 11:39 +0200, Pablo Iranzo Gómez escribió:
>>       No Luis, in your %pre script you can make a switch to vt3 -> chvt 3
>> do whatever echo and reads you want, and return back to anaconda with
>> chvt 1
>>
>>
>>       Regards
>>       Pablo
>>
>>
>> El jue, 07-08-2008 a las 10:37 +0100, Luis Correia escribió:
>> > Hi Joel,
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:23, Joel Andres Granados <jgranado at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > > Luis Correia wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Hi,
>> > >>
>> > >> I'm about to do some funky %pre stuff in python, to decide whetner or
>> > >> not to install the machine and need some user interaction.
>> > >> We're only doing it in text mode, no need for fancy graphics.
>> > >>
>> > >> How do I from the %pre script write stuff to the screen, get input,
>> > >> maybe a button or two ?
>> > >>
>> > >> I've rummaged through the anaconda code, but it all seems a bit strange to
>> > >> me.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks for all the help you could provide,
>> > >> Luis Correia
>> > >>
>> > >> _______________________________________________
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>> > >
>> > > Took a quick look at the code and it seems that it executes whatever is in
>> > > pre with a redirect to tty3, including the input.  This suggests to me that
>> > > you can basically do a bash read (or however you want to prompt the user)
>> > > and it will prompt you on the vt3.  It wont work if you are installing
>> > > through serial console though.  Didn't actually test this.
>> > >
>> > > Hope it helps.
>> >
>> > So, that means that, in order to interact with the user in the main
>> > tty, I must modify Anaconda, right?
>> > If yes, then I could probably use the 'updates' method...
>> >
>> > > --
>> > > Joel Andres Granados
>> > > Red Hat / Brno, Czech Republic
>> >
>> > Luis Correia
>> >