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vtwaldo21 · (This post was last modified: 2017-03-18 06:34 by vtwaldo21.)

Is there a way to elicit freeform text entry? The only input field I see is the 'login' command, but I want something where I may ask for desired hostname or something? I've searched, but found nothing.

(2017-03-18 06:30)vtwaldo21 Wrote: Is there a way to elicit freeform text entry? The only input field I see is the 'login' command, but I want something where I may ask for desired hostname or something? I've searched, but found nothing.

To post a suggestion to my own thread, maybe I can use "read" and assign to a variable that I am not intending on using? Or can you read to arbitrary values, e.g. echo -n "Please provide foo:" && read bar

That is a simple test, but I don't have IPXE access here to try it out.