<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7036.0"> <TITLE>Couple of questions</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hello everyone, When kickstarting, in text mode, eventually there is a pair of boxes which are displayed; they are labeled "Dynamic IP" and "Hostname". This occurs after the kernel images have been downloaded and booted. I've two questions at this point: - Is "Dynamic IP"'s message about "Sending request for IP information for eth0" soliciting DHCP or DNS for its answer? - Is "Hostname"''s message about "Determining host name and domain ..." soliciting its information from DHCP or DNS? Around this same time in the process, on VC4, I can see three entries that I'd like to better understand. - "bootp_gw_ip" has a value listed of 0.0.0.0 - "hwaddr:" is blank, with no value listed - "servername: is blank, with no value listed Any further insight for these would be nicely helpful, thank you. One thing that is interesting, and frustrating, is while looking directly at VC4 during the boot process, the network information is displayed without any respect to line breaks. However, when I switch to that page once its information is listed, it appears nice, normal and neat. Easy to read. Anything I can do to get it to display nicely even when actively viewing it? Another question is about the various outputs on the other VC's. Is there any method to control their output going to a text log file for subsequent review? Should would be a nice troubleshooting aid. Once a system has reached %post, I've been successful in echo'ing text progress messages to /dev/console. This shows me progress in all of the post processing I do in a upfront visual method. Only problem is that the messages would display and the cursor will drop a line, but not begin at the left margin. I've tried various options with escaping tab and newline and carriage return types of characters to have the text display at the beginning of the next line. Any suggestions on how to go about doing this in %post? An example is like this: text message1 text message 2 test message 3 Thank you. <A NAME=""> R, -</A>Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET) Senior IA Engineer ProSync Technology Group, LLC www.prosync.com (410) 772-7969 office (410) 772-7967 fax (443) 801-5597 personal cell </BODY> </HTML>