On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Marc De Preter wrote: >I am trying to build a fully automated installation procedure, that will >resize NTFS partitions, and create linux partitions, based on some >templates. How will you resize NTFS partitions? I don't think parted knows how to do that. >My main issue is that I need the user to break the NTFS partitioning at >any time (if (s)he decides not to continue with the install f.i.). > >So the way I do it for the moment is to run a script before calling the >loader, and this script does all the magic, and reboots the box in case >of a problem or if the user doesn't confirm the actions to take. > >Now, this may not be the best way to do it. So is it possible to run >this script in the %pre section of the kickstart ? Of course. >Before you say "of course", please consider that I need user input, and >that I don't want user to Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get to the script ... I would >rather have the script running in the GUI :) > >So, anybody has experience with this ? Only reading what others do on this list. dialog is a decent enough textmode GUI for your requirements, but if you need something running in X that's (more) difficult. chvt will flip to other VTs without needing to press Alt+F2. Cheers, Phil
