[rhn-users] How do I show bootstrap.sh status info duringkickstart postinstall?

[Hiren Patel]

nice, thank you kindly for posting this, i think it will come in handy
for me.

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:59 -0600, Gregg Phillips wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> I found the answer to my own question and thought others might be
> interested. Just after the %post declaration in the ks.cfg file,
> surround your scripts including call to bootstrap.sh with the following:
> 
> %post
> 
> echo -e \\a
> chvt 3
> 
> (
> 
> 
> Your scripts here.
> 
> 
> ) 2>&1 | tee /root/ks-postinstall.log
> 
> echo -e \\a
> 
> 
> This sounds a beep to alert you that you are at the post install and
> changes the virtual terminal to 3 which is where all the information is
> displayed. It also creates a copy in /root/ks-postinstall.log which you
> can check for errors and sounds another beep when it is finished.
> 
> Thanks to Jeremy Mates and his excellent website
> http://sial.org/howto/kickstart/3AS/default.cfg for this and other
> valuable information.
> 
> Gregg.
> 
> 
> 
> Gregg Phillips wrote:
> > Good Day,
> >
> > Now that I have bootstrap.sh working in conjunction with kickstart for
> > my RHEL 3WS systems. I was wondering if it were possible to display the 
> > status of what is occurring behind the scenes with the system up2date
> > portion of bootstrap.sh? It would be nice to have this info displayed on
> > the install screen of the client instead of just the spiraling dots.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Gregg.
> >
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