RE: progress messages

["Joe_Wulf" <Joe_Wulf yahoo com>]

Thank you.  I'll give that a try.

R,
-Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
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-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Steve Robson
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:56
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: Re: progress messages

> Subject: RE: Couple of questions
> From: "Joe_Wulf" <Joe_Wulf yahoo com>
> 
> Thank you both for the helpful feedback.
> 
> My post section does a number of things before ever letting the system boot.
> My desire was to see some progress messages on the console while that process
was
> working.  Such as "reached point x", "reached point y".  The display of them to
> "/dev/console" wasn't very pretty and attempts to clean it up hasn't proven
> successful.  Was hoping someone has also done this and found a way to have
lines
> of text display neatly.

Not exactly the same, but similar; in my %pre section I make an NFS 
mount and then run a script from the mount.  Verbiage in that script is 
simply echoed out:
echo "blah blah"
and this appears on VC3, with proper cr/lf.  Hope this helps,

-- 
   Regards,
   Steve

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