On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Rauschkolb, Mark wrote: >We want to have a minimally interactive install that will work over a >serial console, or with a locally attached keyboard -- the only >interaction at the moment is to reply to a "do you want to wipe the >contents of the machine" If you can assume kernel commandline args will put anaconda into serial mode, then the I/O will take care of itself. dialog(1) supports timeouts, as does bash's read builtin. Cheers, Phil