[PATCH] Add "Starting installer..." messages

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 17:19:45 UTC 2012


Print a couple of messages as anaconda starts up so the user isn't
confused about what's happening after the screen goes dark.
---
 anaconda | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/anaconda b/anaconda
index fc679c9..d6650a9 100755
--- a/anaconda
+++ b/anaconda
@@ -646,6 +646,8 @@ def prompt_for_ssh():
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
+    print "Starting installer, one moment..."
+
     setupPythonPath()
 
     # Allow a file to be loaded as early as possible
@@ -708,6 +710,13 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     from pyanaconda import vnc
     from pyanaconda import kickstart
 
+    verdesc = "%s for %s %s" % (getAnacondaVersion(),
+                                product.productName, product.productVersion)
+    if product.isFinal:
+        print "anaconda %s started."
+    else:
+        print "anaconda %s (pre-release) started."
+
     # to set UTF8 mode on the terminal, we need LANG to be set usefully
     if os.environ.get("LANG", "C") == "C":
         os.environ['LANG'] = DEFAULT_LANG
-- 
1.7.11.2



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