On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Sean P. Kane wrote: > This is an interesting discussion. I tried a trick recently to PAUSE the > install in the %post section if certain unusual errors occurred (from > here I could decide to continue or cancel). I did this by simply using > the "read" command to wait for <enter> until continuing. Of course, the > problem here ended up being that you are only seeing the output from > your post script and don't actually have anyway to give it input. I > tried a few hacks like using "open" to launch it interactively on > another vt, but that didn't seem to work well either. Has anyone had any > success with such an approach? It would be nice to come up with some > solid error handling for kickstart. I've been hacking away at my own installer. If I want it to pause, I find this works well: /bin/bash </dev/console >/dev/console 2>/dev/console This gives me complete freedom as to what to do, including "/sbin/reboot -f -n" -- Please, reply only to the list.
