After looking at what Kyle suggested it was grabbing the input from tty1 and I was able to flip back and forth between consoles to make it work. Your suggestion below fixed the issue, thnx! FYI, this is on ESX 3.5 Update 2 .. > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Brown > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:09 PM > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > Subject: Re: simple pre script for user input > > Try adding this after 'chvt 3': > > exec </dev/tty3 >/dev/tty3 2>/dev/tty3 > > -Ed > > tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I'm betting the RPM program does not have its stdin from your > > terminal, so it is waiting on the read for the IP, which, > even though > > you enter something, does not get read since your tty is > not its stdin. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Glenn Bailey [mailto:gbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:12 PM > > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: simple pre script for user input > > > > Playing around with a %pre script for user input, and while > this works > > fine in a normal shell, after I enter an IP it just hangs > there and I > > have to hit > > alt-f2 and kill the process before it moves forward .. > Anyway ideas? > > Like I said this works fine in a normal shell: > > > > %pre > > chvt 3 > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
