You may be interested to know that the long-standing bug of being able to indicate progress in a kickstart %post script is now in MODIFIED. This bug is: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/147109 What I've done is add the zenity program to the stage2 image. This is sort of like dialog - it's a small program that you provide options to and it displays a GTK widget corresponding to those options. The return value or output of the program contains whatever the user did with the widget. This should give you the capability to display progress bars for especially large or slow %pre and %post scripts. The man page lists all the options you've got to work with. Problems: - It's kind of ugly. I don't think I care all that much. - I've only tested with %pre scripts, because rawhide is having problems today. - It only works for graphical installs, because it's a graphical program. - I don't think this will work in chrooted %post scripts. You may want to experiment with the $DISPLAY variable and all that to see if you can trick it into working. - This gives you guys all sorts of other widgets to use in your scripts, even allowing for interactive forms and the like. This should lead to even more complicated and bizarre kickstart files. Please try this stuff out in the next build of anaconda and let me know if there are any problems. Enjoy. - Chris _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
