On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dan Carpenter wrote: >I haven't been able to figure out how to get access to the console for >a user friendly UI... I do everything in a different console and >that's not as good. It's not really a problem on a VGA console, as chvt(1) can bring any VT to the "foreground". Not sure what would happen with serial. For ananconda-like interaction, I'd suggest scripting with dialog. This is all assuming text-mode interaction, which is all that's available in %pre (before the second stage loads). Cheers, Phil