Hey folks!
I'm doing some %pre work for the first time in a very long time, and have been at this all day so far and still don't have anything sorted out properly.
First I tried just doing some simple bash stuff like this
%pre #!/bin/bash # stuff
I reduced "stuff" down to basically a simple "select" statement to echo and read input, just for the sake of debugging.
My first problem is that when running the kickstart, the little box would come up saying it is running the pre scripts, but my scripts would never actually run. No output, no prompts, nothing.
So after some muddling I tried this :
%pre #!/bin/bash exec 1>&3 exec > /dev/tty chvt 3 exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 clear # stuff
I cannot say I really understand this - it is just something I came across. in any case, now my script seems to run fine, but after it finishes it does not appear to go back to my install. I get messages like :
date INFO all kickstart %%pre script(s) have been run date WARNING resolution and depth not specified, try to be sane
and that is it - it stops there.
I've also tried just :
%pre #!/bin/bash chvt 3 clear # stuff
With the same results as above.
This is all running within VMWare ESXi 4.0 if that matters.
What am I missing here?
thanks, -Alan