Hi Jean,

One comment inline...

On 05/21/09 14:19, Jean McCormack wrote:
> 
> Progress Reporting:
> 
> The output to the console to reflect the progress of the auto-install 
> should be of the format:
> 
> (pseudo progress bar)  High level description of current functionality
> 
> Example (general idea, wording is not exact) :
> 
> (.....................) Discovering available services
> (.....                ) Choosing service
> 
> The .'s indicate percentage completion. This means we have a dependency 
> upon IPS to supply size information for the packages.
> A return is only implemented when the install moves from one major block 
> of functionality to the next. Otherwise, the text is overwritten with 
> updates to the dots to indicate progress.
> 
> The use of virtual console was considered as a possibility if a more  
> detailed progress
> is required. Preliminary investigation indicates that this currently is  
> not in our microroot and would
> be too large to include there.

Please consider enabling the log file to be retrieved/accessed remotely. 
Simply exposing it via an http service would be a *big* help. Especially 
when installing systems remotely.

Thanks
--Jens

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