Display progress during long kickstart %post script

[Ajay Mulwani]

One of the virtual consoles, I think Ctrl+Alt+F3 already displays the
progress of %post. You will probably not require any such script but
just to educate the users.

Regards,
Ajay


On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:10:50 +0000 (GMT), David Bartlett
<davidbartlett2003 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I run a quite lengthy %post script (runtime = 5-10
> minutes) as part of my kickstart build and would like
> to include some useful output to reassure my users
> that the build process is running normally and has not
> hung. A progress bar to match the [text interface]
> anaconda style would be ideal, but lines of text
> simply echoed to screen would be ok in the meantime.
> 
> It looks as though the %post is spawned out of
> anaconda and I'm not sure how to display messages to
> screen from within my %post script (as anaconda still
> owns the screen). I am reluctant to change the
> anaconda python code as I really want to keep the
> vendor tools standard. I use the text-only version of
> anaconda and have no interest in the GUI component.
> 
> Has anyone else successfully controlled the screen
> whilst anaconda is running, or have any thoughts on
> this?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Rgds, David Bartlett.
> 
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