Kickstart issues in RHEL6 Beta

[Michael Jennings]

On Apr 27, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Don Hoover wrote:

> Yes, I have written very similar code to parse /proc/partitions myself as a substitute.
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> I opened bugzilla# 586410 about the error anyway.  After all if the command is still in /usr/sbin it should work.
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> I also opened bugzilla# 586188 about putting a note about the removal of /tmp/netinfo into the release notes for RHEL6.
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> And I opened TWO NEW bugzilla's today, both of these are releated to busybox being removed and a couple of common functions are no longer available.
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> 2) Bugzilla# 586499 - There is no longer a 'clear' screen command available in the kickstart environment for %pre/%post scripts
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> This can be accomplished via echo -e "\033[H\033[J"
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> 1) Bugzilla# 586494 - The ever popular chvt command is no longer exists for use in  %pre/%post scripts.
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> I have no idea how to do this yet without the chvt command.

You do have openvt I noticed. Try using that. I want chvt readded as well though. 
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> On the bright side... I ALMOST have gotten my RHEL5 kickstart to actually not crash yet.
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