An install that functions from both serial console and local keyboard?

[Philip Rowlands]

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