Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Future improvement ideas. (resend/new thread :)

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>>>I also ment to offer the user the option to run this script when
>>>>>devil can not load config from a floppy. So starting it up without
>>>>>a floppy, creating a basic config, booting the system and then
>>>>>writing the config with save_config.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Even better, let's do both.
>>>>
>>>Sounds good.  How can I help? 
>>>Do you want me to run with part or all of it?
>>>
>>All of it. ;-)
>>
> 
> I was hoping you'd say that!  :-)
> 
> 
>>Once there's a working base, we can add our ideas.
>>
> 
> What's the best method of accepting user input during the boot process?
> I've seen programs you can stick in shell scripts that accept input
> using a curses screen.  Is there any such thing available to DL on boot?
> Or should I use the boring echo/read standard shell commands?

I actually was never looking into that, so echo/read is the only option 
I know.
You probably could leverage the "lxdialog" we use for our "make 
menuconfig" or something similar.

Heiko

P.S. going offline now