>does the F3 screen become active or do you actually have to press the
keystroke to start entering your input?
It becomes active, I do not need to do anything. It just
sits there and asks for my input when it gets to that point.
>Can you only use chvt 3???
Yes, that is all Iam doing. :-) Isn't that just sweet!
-Todd
barjunk wrote:
If using this method for input, does the F3 screen become active or do
you actually have to press the keystroke to start entering your input?So I guess I want to ask for user input without the user having to
switch to the third console.Mike
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 09:16, Jason Kohles wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:02, Keegan, Gordon wrote:
> > A sample ks.cfg file that I picked up somewhere had the following example of
> > user interaction during the install:
> >
> > # redirect I/O to the 3rd tty
> > exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tyt3
> > echo -n "Enter something: "
> > read yn
> > echo "We got $yn"
> >
> > Apologies for not having the source to be able to credit, and you'll have to
> > do the <CTL>+<ALT>+<F3> thing, but this may get you in the direction you
> > need.
> >
> Just stick in a call to 'chvt 3' before you redirect and you can script
> the ctrl-alt-F3 part as well.
>
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> Jason Kohles jkohles@xxxxxxxxxx
> Senior Engineer Red Hat Professional Consulting
>
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