controlling partitioning but not install device

[Larry Brigman]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Kyle Powell <kpowell at redhat.com> wrote:

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> Matt Rose wrote:
> > 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
>
> 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.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2003-September/msg00053.html
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2004-November/msg00033.html
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2007-September/msg00015.html
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2008-November/msg00062.html
> - --
> Kyle Powell | Red Hat | Senior Consultant, RHCE
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Thanks.  Useful and right on the point.  I even tried to use a google query
with the
basic terms from the provide URL's but if they were there, they were lost in
the noise.

Thanks again.  Now to go and implement.
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