Karanbir Singh wrote:
the 'normal' way to do such config stuff is via a module for firstboot, which runs the first time a machine boots....
I want the user to enter as much as possible at the very beginning of the process, then walk away and the installation should continue after that 100% unattended. It's very handy if you have to build dozens of servers ASAP. ;-)
since you are going this in %pre rather than %post, i presume some of the choices a user makes at this stage will influence the installer in someway ?
Yes. All systems are the same, except a few small differences. It's those differences that the installer must ask.
And now I have the solution. Apparently, %pre is displayed on tty3, but the input is still on tty1. Ugly, but we have to deal with it. So, this is a %pre that works fine:
%pre chvt 3 exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 echo -n "Enter blah: " read blah echo $blah > /tmp/ks-blah chvt 1 exec < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1