I figured it out. I did not notice that setSteps and skipStep("installtype", skip = 0) are also being called in text/upgrade_text.py causing it to reset the steps. Its great the every time I try to explain my problem in the process I find out the solution. It helps to get it out in black and white. Stafford On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 17:49, Stafford Horne wrote: > Hello, > > Normally when kickstarting the kickstart file should contain "install" > or "upgrade". I you leave this out it will default to "install". I am > attempting to change this behavior... > > If I do not have "install" or "upgrade" in the kickstart file I would > like for anaconda to search for existing installations and do the > following: > If installation found > prompt "would you like to upgrade or reinstall" > If installation not foundp > continue with kickstart in the normal way. > > I have finished most of this except for if I select reinstall it goes to > the "installtype" stage. Now I do call skipStep("installtype") in > setSteps() so it should not do that. For some reason when I select > reinstall all of the steps get turned back on. > > Has anyone done this before? is anyone familiar with the logic and can > help me out a bit? > > Stafford