[CentOS] interactive %pre in kickstart?
Florin Andrei
florin at andrei.myip.org
Wed Mar 21 01:32:42 UTC 2007
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
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Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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