[CentOS] Kickstart issue: 'dialog' doesn't work in %post, CentOS 5.5

Wed Jun 9 02:31:22 UTC 2010
Zhang Huangbin <zhbmaillistonly at gmail.com>

On Jun 9, 2010, at 2:20 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 08/06/2010 17:25, Zhang Huangbin wrote:
>> I want to use dialog[1] for command line based user interface, but it can't display correctly in kickstart with CentOS 5.5. Same ks file works with CentOS 5.3 (both i386 and x86_64).
> 
> I cant comment on your issue here as such, but my the way to achieve 
> something along the lines of what you are doing is to build and drop in 
> a firstboot module that could then use the interface setup via firstboot 
> for user interaction. Generally doing user interaction at the level you 
> are doing, in a kickstart file, is considered bad practice.

Thanks for your advice, but i prefer to start the installation wizard before reboot.

The problem is, same code works with CentOS 5.3, but not with 5.5.