On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Todd Chilson wrote: > I have a Kickstart script that prompts for user input in the %post >section. However, I have to ask for user input. So, it would look >something like: >echo "Enter blast host number (1-34, etc.): " >read BLNUM > However, when I enter a number and press enter nothing happens. The >other interesting thing is that I have to hit ctrl+alt+f2 in order to >see the user prompt in the first place. Have you set the file descriptors at all? I've found the following lines are necessary at the top of the %post section in order to see stdout. exec > /dev/console 2>&1 #send stdout and stderr to console TERM=dumb #reset terminal to lose staircase effect reset clear I've never tried this for input though, so you might you need to play around. "ls -l /proc/self/fd > /tmp/kickstart-fd-list" might be a helpful line. Cheers, Phil
