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I have the below kickstart %post, but it hangs at the Post Installation Screen. Any thing I had missed or done wrongly? Thanks.

%post --log=/root/my-post-log ( echo "# Running Post Configuration #" #Switch to virtual terminal 3 so that user's input is accepted chvt 3 exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 2>&1 echo "################################" echo "# Running Post Configuration #" echo "################################" #Get the input echo "Please specify IP address:" read ip echo "Please specify Netmask:" read mask echo "Please specify Gateway:" read gateway echo "Please specify Nameserver:" read nameserver echo "Please specify Timezone (Asia/Singapore):" read timezone echo "Please specify NTP Server:" read ntpserver #Substitute with sed the hardcoded IP address with the one we've specified echo "Updating Network Configurations..." sed -i "s/2\.2\.2\.2/$ip/" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 sed -i "s/4\.4\.4\.4/$mask/" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 sed -i "s/1\.1\.1\.1/$gateway/" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 sed -i "s/1\.1\.1\.1/$gateway/" /etc/sysconfig/network sed -i "s/8\.8\.4\.4/$nameserver/" /etc/resolv.conf sed -i "s/Asia\/Singapore/$timezone/" /etc/sysconfig/clock sed -i "s/0\.centos\.pool\.ntp\.org/$ntpserver/" /etc/ntp.conf service network restart echo "Network Configurations Updated" #Switch back to virtual terminal 1 for the installation to finish exec < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 chvt 1 echo "End of post-install steps" ) 2>&1 | /usr/bin/tee /root/post_install.log | tee /dev/console %end

I have tested the below as well, still doesn't work:

%post #Switch to virtual terminal 3 so that user's input is accepted chvt 3 exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 echo "################################" echo "# Running Post Configuration #" echo "################################" #Get the input echo "Please specify IP address:" read ip echo "Please specify Netmask:" read mask echo "Please specify Gateway:" read gateway echo "Please specify Nameserver:" read nameserver echo "Please specify Timezone (Asia/Singapore):" read timezone echo "Please specify NTP Server:" read ntpserver #Substitute with sed the hardcoded IP address with the one we've specified echo "Updating Network Configurations..." sed -i "s/2\.2\.2\.2/$ip/" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 sed -i "s/4\.4\.4\.4/$mask/" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 sed -i "s/1\.1\.1\.1/$gateway/" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 sed -i "s/1\.1\.1\.1/$gateway/" /etc/sysconfig/network sed -i "s/8\.8\.4\.4/$nameserver/" /etc/resolv.conf sed -i "s/Asia\/Singapore/$timezone/" /etc/sysconfig/clock sed -i "s/0\.centos\.pool\.ntp\.org/$ntpserver/" /etc/ntp.conf service network restart echo "Network Configurations Updated" #Switch back to virtual terminal 1 for the installation to finish exec < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 chvt 1 %end
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you could try

exec < /dev/console > /dev/console

instead of 

exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3
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    Hi and welcome to the site. We expect answers to be a bit more comprehensive. How does your solution help the OP? Does it help them? What makes you think they don't need to use tty3 specifically? What makes you think that /dev/console is an acceptable alternative? Also, on many (all?) systems, tty3 is writeable by users belonging to the tty group while /dev/console is only writeable by users in the root group. Commented Jul 11, 2014 at 13:56
  • Because I already did the experiment by myself. /dev/tty3 does not work in kickstart script, but /dev/console could work well. Besides, kickstart script is executed as root permission. Commented Feb 4, 2016 at 6:49

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