Thank you. I'll give that a try. R, -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 -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Robson Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:56 To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: progress messages > Subject: RE: Couple of questions > From: "Joe_Wulf" <Joe_Wulf@xxxxxxxxx> > > 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 IT Support - UNIX/Linux Cadence Design Systems Bagshot Road Bracknell BERKSHIRE RG12 0PH UK _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list