[CentOS] disable virtual terminals during kickstart installation

[James A. Peltier]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, James Pearson wrote:

> James A. Peltier wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out where the inittab is for a pxeboot/kickstart
>> installation so that I can disable virtual terminals that allow for
>> interactive input such as CTRL+ALT+F2.  I've looked in the /etc
>> directories for the pxeboot initrd as well as the stage2 and minstg2
>> files.  Am I missing something grossly obvious here?
>
> I think this is all handled by the 'loader' binary that is the first
> stage of the install.
>
> However, the anaconda docs state that there is a boot command option:
>
>  noshell         Do not put a shell on tty2 during install.
>
> see:
> <http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-kickstart2-startinginstall.html>
>
> James Pearson
>
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Okay, I'm glad it wasn't quite so obvious.  I don't know how I missed that 
option because I scanned the kickstart documentation a couple of times.

Thanks James!

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